The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have agreed to create “European Digital Identity Wallets” (eID), a central digital identification system for all Europeans. It is an application intended to conduct official business at EU level via the Internet, but also to use online services and the network itself. The wallet will contain digital versions of citizen documents, as well as digital money. However, many experts and entrepreneurs warn of possible large-scale abuses. The purse will give Europe’s rulers the ability to deprive citizens of their fundamental rights and have virtually unlimited control over them. It is a tool to introduce a smiling, liberal tyranny.
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According to the new EU law, the aim is to give citizens the so-called “digital wallets” – initially on a voluntary basis, which will contain digital versions of their identity cards, driving licenses, diplomas, medical records, account information, etc. This is intended to facilitate the handling of official business, the use of online services within the EU, confirming identity and recognizing documents. In short, in Portugal there will be no problem obtaining and confirming the medical documentation of a Polish citizen once he is in a local hospital. Also insurance, permits, etc.
All EU citizens will have the opportunity to have an EU digital identity wallet, allowing access to public and private online services in complete security and protection of personal data across Europe
the European Commission wrote in a statement.
And Nadia Calvino, the Spanish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs, who now heads the Spanish EU Presidency, said pompously:
By adopting the European Digital Identity Regulation, we are taking an essential step to ensure that citizens can have a unique and secure European digital identity. This is an important progress that allows the European Union to become a global digital reference, protecting our democratic rights and values.
Of course this is EU nonsense. What do digital identity confirmation etc. have to do with democracy and some European values? In any case, it is only because they are under threat, as indicated by 504 scientists, privacy and cybersecurity experts from 39 countries who signed a joint letter warning against the pitfalls of this wallet and the threats it poses to our online safety and freedom. In Poland, virtually no one is interested in this. The letter was signed by only one representative of our country: Prof. Miroslaw Kutyłowski of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Here is a link to the protest letter
To understand the essence of threats, it is worth going back a few years, when work on digital identity was greatly accelerated. This was related to the pandemic and the introduction of the Covid passport. In fact, the aim was to quickly identify those who had not been vaccinated and were therefore deprived of their basic rights – such as the right to move and travel. Those who did not have electronic certificates confirming that they had voluntarily submitted to the compulsory vaccination could, in practice, be kept in ghettos for those who were suspicious or abnormal from a hygienic point of view. The new digital wallet being designed has infinitely greater potential to disenfranchise and enslave people.
Already in the first advantage of this wallet – that all documents are in one place and available with one button – as the Eurocrats praise, lies one of the biggest threats. This means that you can also take all documents from us with one button. As long as they are spread out, it is much more difficult to do this. The Trudeau regime has already applied this in Canada, depriving those who disagreed with the Covid killings of access to their accounts, i.e. money, but also voiding the insurance of truck drivers who drove a large protest convoy formed.
Control over citizens would not even be exercised by individual state governments, but by Brussels. In short: it would not be some bureaucrat in Warsaw who would cancel the insurance of rude citizens, but an EU Eurocrat. Even if we were to establish a regime and deprive ourselves of freedom, we would not be sovereign, we would only rely on Brussels.
Naturally, the Commission does not intend to stop at eID. Another thing Europe’s rulers are working on is a digital euro. EU Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, Thierry Breton, the same one who imposes censorship on social media, announced: Now that we have a digital identity wallet, we need to put something into it.
Of course it’s also about money. The EU wallet should not only contain digital documents, but also digital money. This greatly facilitates the control and implementation of the social credit system. And again: just like in Canada or Brazil, protesting citizens can be denied access to their accounts, and therefore their money, with one click. They will not withdraw it, they will not perform even the most basic transaction, because their cards and electronic devices that carry the digital currency will no longer work.
Catherine Austin Fitts, an American financial expert and former Housing Secretary in George Bush’s administration, warns that the digital system will be centrally controlled and that everyone’s financial resources could be limited.
The ability to perform financial transactions can be disabled. Let’s say I want to force you to take the vaccine. If you don’t do what I tell you, you may be denied access to your funds or blocked completely.
Such a totalitarian system could also allow the state to control how citizens spend their money. That this is not an imagination or abstraction is proven by the blocking of money from citizens in Canada or from those protesting against President Lula in Brazil.
Theoretically, digital money should be a great convenience, but it is an excellent means of control that also deprives us of our right to privacy.
Fintech and CBDC (digital money) have social consequences. If cash gave way to CBDC and payment systems became digital, any idea of anonymity and privacy in financial matters would be seriously threatened.
writes the American economist, professor at Cornell University Eswara Pasada in his book ‘The Future of Money. How the digital revolution is transforming the world of currency and finance.
CBDC would also become an instrument that enables the implementation of various economic and social policies of the government.
Adam Glapiński also warns about the danger of digital currencies.
It cannot be ruled out that there will be costs… about which the consumer does not want to inform his bank. In this context, the proposed regulation must also be viewed in relation to the right to privacy of consumers vis-à-vis entrepreneurs, especially because the protection of this privacy is expressed expressis verbis, including: in art. 76 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland
– writes the president of the NBP in a letter to the Ministry of Finance, which is a staunch supporter of the liquidation of cash.
Edward Dowd, founder of Phinance Technologies, warns that any CBDC system will be a system of totalitarian control linked to Chinese-style ‘social credit’. Disobedient citizens will be cut off from money, but also from access to public services.
Digital money It simply becomes a social engineering tool, a gadget for control freaks.
says Dowd.
Everything is connected. It is a system, not individual, distributed activities. We must therefore not forget that the amendment of the Treaties being carried out in Brussels provides for the liquidation of national currencies and their forced replacement by the euro. Not only would Poland be unable to conduct its own monetary policy, but the EU would also control the purse strings, i.e. the money of Polish citizens.
Governments using digital money can not only punish disobedient citizens, but also monitor and discipline everyone and enforce specific behavior in everyday activities. The example comes from the smiling, friendly and progressive tyranny in Canada. The cooperative savings bank Vincity has introduced cards that count the carbon footprint of goods purchased with its help. A similar solution was introduced by the Australian Commonwealth Bank. So we are once again dealing with the fiction of anonymity. The system accurately collects, stores and processes data about what users spend their digital money on. Now it is enough to introduce a limit on the ecological footprint of each citizen. Once this is exceeded, you will no longer be able to execute a transaction
We should have no illusions about the evil intentions of Europe’s rulers. Everything coincides in time. The head of the European Central Bank, Christina Lagarde, has just announced the bank’s significant progress in working towards a digital currency. Meanwhile, the US Federal Reserve has done virtually no work. Cash is safe in America.
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But there is something that could prevent Europe’s rulers from achieving a system of permanent, comprehensive electronic control for the time being. That is the disastrous state of the German digital economy. Germany ranks second to last in the EU when it comes to access to high-speed internet. The infrastructure is lacking everywhere and everything indicates that they will not be able to quickly install a fiber optic network, which is necessary for efficient data transmission. It is a country without a trained workforce and anachronistic devices such as a fax machine. It is difficult to think about an electronic passport where even the simplest online services do not work, or about digital money in a country where there are problems with paying by card.
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The European Commission will vote on the introduction of an electronic wallet on November 28. Meanwhile, we don’t even know what the position of the current Polish government is. How our representative voted in the Council of the European Union. We can reflect with real fear on the attitude of the future government. There is no doubt that the Eurocrats want to close the system and build a smiling liberal regime in which citizens are reduced to the role of consumers, and everything is controlled by the rulers and owners of Europe.
Source: wPolityce