Biden Admin Drafting EO for Fed & State Governments to speed up adoption of Digital ID & for development of uniform, government-run online ID system/verify identity & age, access websites & services
đ¨Fed govt wasnât able to legally mandate vaccination to all U.S. citizens, BUT, it was mandated to fed employees, & the private sector followed suitâĄď¸The same can EASILY happen with digital identity
The Biden administration is drafting an executive order for federal and state governments to speed up the adoption of digital ID â including mobile driverâs licenses â and for the development of a uniform, government-run online identity system to verify identity and age, and access public websites and services.
NOTUS, a nonprofit news outlet, obtained a draft of the executive order, which states: âIt is the policy of the executive branch to strongly encourage the use of digital identity documents.â
According to NOTUS, the executive order âcould reshape how Americans access government services, and potentially behave online.â
A digital ID system could operate with the use of biometric scans like facial recognition to âhelp better verify identity online,â NOTUS reported, noting the federal government is working with Apple and Google to build systems that would âallow Americans to carry identity documents on their smartphones and frictionlessly submit them to both government and private sector websites for verification.â
Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., author of âThe Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda,â told The Defender that, as defined by the World Economic Forum (WEF), âdigital identity is âthe sum total of the growing and evolving mass of information about us, our profiles and the history of our activities online.ââ
Rectenwald said:
âDigital identity is not merely a new, more handy, lightweight, digital form of identification. It refers to a collection of data that purportedly defines who we are, including what we do both online and offline ⌠and not merely to a means by which we can be identified as such.â
Alexis Hancock, director of engineering for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told The Defender the Biden administrationâs digital ID will disproportionately target the poor and underprivileged.
She saidâŚ
âDigital Identity and the standards that dictate them are still very ânewâ and yet the White House is expediting digital identity for the most vulnerable of populations: people on public benefits.
âDeploying various technologies on this population to access their benefits, such as facial recognition is not something Iâd encourage or advise. Especially with facial recognition being fraught with issues of discrimination.â
Rectenwald also đ¨warned that digital ID can later be expanded to other functionsâŚ
âEven if a digital identity system only serves as identification at first, as the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice notes, digital identities are prone to âfunction creepââ â that is, âthey are intended to be used for multiple purposes that are unforeseen when the system is first designed,â he said.
Tim Hinchliffe, editor of The Sociable, cited vaccine passports as one such possibility.
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âWhile the federal government wasnât able to legally mandate vaccination to all U.S. citizens, it went ahead anyway and mandated it to federal employees, and the private sector followed suit. ⌠The same can easily happen with digital identity,â Hinchliffe said.
The NOTUS report comes just days after revelations that the Social Security numbers and other personal information of practically all Americans stored by a private company, National Public Data, was breached in April 2024.
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In 8/13/24, I received a letter dated 8/5/24, pictured below đ , describing a breach of my SSN & other personal information, with an offer for IDX credit monitoring & identity protection servicesâŚ
AND, I am in FULL AGREEMENT with Catherine Austin Fitts, that âthe Biden administration is (IMO, NEFARIOUSLY) proposing to create even more centrally controlled databases pushing for a digital IDâ, (INSTEAD OF) âapologiz(ing) or take steps to make sure that our data is secureâ.
AFTER ALL, Why would the Biden administration let a good crisis (like the National Public Data company breach) go to waste WHEN THEY CAN USE IT to create even more centrally controlled databases pushing for a digital ID?
Catherine Austin Fitts, founder and publisher of the Solari Report and former U.S. assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development, saidâŚ
âRather than apologize or take steps to make sure that our data is secure, the Biden administration is proposing to create even more centrally controlled databases pushing for a digital ID.â
âBig Tech manages digital ID and is far more powerful than governmentsâ
According to NOTUS, 13 states have rolled out âsome kind of mobile driverâs license programâ and more are working toward implementing a digital ID. âBut federal action pushing the transition has been delayedâ â creating a hodgepodge of state digital ID systems that are not coordinated at the federal level.
According to IDScan.net, the 13 states are Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Ohio and Utah. Ohio launched digital driverâs licenses and state IDs earlier this month.
Similar programs are âin progressâ in an additional 14 states, while in two states â Louisiana and Mississippi â mobile ID can be used to vote.
At least seven countries have launched digital ID, according to Identity.com. These include Canada, Estonia, Germany, India, Japan, Singapore and Sweden. The European Union (EU) launched its digital ID and wallet earlier this year.
Each of the 27 EU member states âwill offer at least one version of the EU Digital Identity Wallet,â which may include driverâs licenses, personal health data, travel documents, social security information, personal SIM cards, university diplomas and also may be connected to oneâs bank accounts.
In Greece, ticketing via the governmentâs âdigital walletâ is required to attend sporting events.
But despite the purported convenience âdigital walletsâ may offer, there are also potential risks.
âIf you lose your laminated driverâs license, you can just get a new one,â attorney Greg Glasersaid. âBut if you lose your biometric ID, you cannot get a new thumb or new eyeball, so hacks are permanent.â
Experts also warned of Big Tech involvement in government digital ID schemes.
đ¨âBig Tech manages digital ID and is FAR MORE powerful than governments,â Glaser said. âBig Tech has the patents, and they dictate both the standards and implementation.â
He added:
đ¨âTheir long game in the cybersecurity industry is to centralize data processing so that our state AND LOCAL governments become dependent on the cybersecurity industry to function day-to-day. This is called âdigital public infrastructure,â and it is no small thing, because đ¨it NEUTRALIZES local power and governanceđ¨.â
For instance, several states, including Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland and Ohio, offer their digital ID cards and driverâs licenses via Apple Wallet. Earlier this month, Apple announced that California will soon offer these documents via Apple Wallet as well.
According to NOTUS, although the federal government has developed Login.gov as âthe standard credential for accessing federal websites,â many such sites, including that of the IRS, use âthe Virginia-based start-up ID.me,â a private company.
đ¨âThrough public-private partnerships, digital identity can be very convenient for citizen interactions with governments and corporations, but it can also be a tool for total surveillance and control,â Hinchliffe said.
He added:
đ¨âJust like the jabs, digital identity doesnât have to be forcibly mandated to make your life miserable, but without it, you may not be able to make financial transactions, acquire a driverâs license, go to school or even access the internet.â
According to NOTUS though, fraud involving the lack of a uniform age and identity verification system â including through state driverâs licenses that are relatively easy to forge â has cost the U.S. government billions of dollars and is a key driver of the Biden administrationâs draft executive order.
âThe draft order, if implemented, would ostensibly address a growing problem: The government has lost billions of dollars in fraudulent claims to benefit programs using forged identification cards.â Most state driverâs license systems do not connect to identity verification services that match faces to IDs.
âThe result is growing interest in creating a form of digital ID to use on the web,â NOTUS reported. âJoe Biden first promised an executive order in his 2022 State of the Union address, but it has been stuck in a bureaucratic turf war over what it should include.â
According to the draft executive order, people will not be required to submit to automated facial recognition scans. The executive order also would prohibit the government and contractors from selling biometric data and using that kind of data for anything other than identity verification.
Hancock said that while she agrees with the proposal for âmore account controls for people who are at risk for fraud, like requiring multi-factor authentication and ways to recover their benefits if their credentials are compromised,â she questioned whether the White Houseâs proposed executive order would sufficiently address data safety.
âWhile there are some statements in the White Houseâs plans that seem protective of privacy and consent in using digital identity mechanisms to combat fraud, I am wary that digital identity will lessen or mitigate fraud at scale ⌠This would take more robust technical support with more human aid-like useful technical support call lines and translators,â she said.
Fitts saidâŚ
đ¨âDigital IDs are the essential step to the WEF vision of âWelcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better.ââ
âI do hope that with this call for digital identity, is followed by strong and robust privacy protections for our data and not naivetĂŠ that digital identity itself is the solution,â Hancock said.
Establishment of CBDC the true goal of digital ID?
Experts also told The Defender that despite the Biden administrationâs safety assurances, government-run digital ID programs launched in other countries have been prone to breaches.
In âthe process of all the data centralization ⌠citizens increasingly lose privacy while the authorities hypocritically claim digital wallets provide greater privacy because they are more secure against theft,â Glaser said.
âThe authoritiesâ claim (that digital wallets provide greater privacy because they are more secure against theft) is at best untested and at worst outright false â as Indiaâs recent Aadhaar security breach showed, SINCE about 60% of Indiaâs 1.3 billion population hacked and exposed on the dark web,â Glaser said.
Aadhaar, Indiaâs national digital ID system, has been mired in controversy.
đ¨Promoted by Bill Gates, Aadhaar was recently linked with Indiaâs new digital health certificates.
âIf you want to see how digital identity gets adopted on a massive scale, take a look at Indiaâs Aadhaar digital identity system.
For more than a decade, the government said that digital identity would be voluntary, but then banks and local governments started mandating its use,â Hinchliffe said.
This âmade peopleâs lives difficult to live without the digital ID. Now, India boasts that around 1.2 billion citizens have âvoluntarilyâ signed up for digital ID,â Hinchliffe added.
đ¨Some experts argue that the Biden administrationâs TRUE GOAL with digital ID is to lay the groundwork for the introduction of a central bank digital currency (CBDC).đ¨
đ¨âThe reason that the Biden Administration wants a digital ID is so that the Federal Reserve and the banking system can move to an all-digital financial control system that will use âprogrammable moneyâ [which] will permit taxation without representation and negative interest rates,â đ¨Catherine Austin Fitts said.
Similarly, Rectenwald saidâŚ
đ¨âDigital identity is the lynchpin for instituting a CBDC, which the Biden administration has said in an executive order that it â and by extension, the Harris regime â intends to implement.â
CBDC could be used to shut people with non-establishment opinions out of public life, Rectenwald warnedâŚ
đ¨âLinked with CBDC, digital identity could bar these âundesirablesâ from the economy,â he said, citing people whose bank accounts were frozen for supporting or participating in the Canadian Freedom Convoy.
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