{"id":49720,"date":"2024-04-02T06:11:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=49720"},"modified":"2024-04-02T06:11:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:11:09","slug":"digital-id-secure-convenience-silent-weapon-sinister-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=49720","title":{"rendered":"Digital ID &#8211; Secure Convenience\/Silent Weapon\/Sinister Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-49721\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Beware_The_Future-300x247.png\" alt=\"Beware_The_Future\" width=\"646\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Beware_The_Future-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Beware_The_Future.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Digital ID is already here. We saw an introduction to it via myGov accounts, digital car registration, digital drivers licences, smart phone tracking apps, QR Code sign-ins and a plethora of other online digital services.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What this is gradually leading us into is a more sinister trap.\u00a0<strong>Digital ID is easily stolen<\/strong>, and has been used for nefarious purposes by governments, as seen with food and the biometric ID in Iran, track-and-tracing of citizens under the guise of public health and &#8216;safety&#8217;, and social credit score monitoring in China.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.ink\/digital-id-or-digital-prison\/\">https:\/\/didyouknow.ink\/digital-id-or-digital-prison\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital ID is already here. We saw an introduction to it via myGov accounts, digital car registration, digital drivers licences, smart phone tracking apps, QR Code sign-ins and a plethora of other online digital services. What this is gradually leading us into is a more sinister trap.\u00a0Digital ID is easily stolen, and has been used &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=49720\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digital ID &#8211; Secure Convenience\/Silent Weapon\/Sinister Trap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49725,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49720\/revisions\/49725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}