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Posted on 02/21/2026 5:36:56 AM PST by MtnClimber
Digital IDs offer undeniable benefits, but they come with risks that strike at the heart of conservative values: privacy, individual autonomy, and skepticism of centralized authority.
uppose for a moment that Joe Citizen and his lovely wife are rendered unconscious in an auto accident. Joe is a diabetic and suffers from hypertension, while his wife is under medication for rheumatic heart disease and is allergic to some types of antibiotics. When the EMTs arrive they scan their embedded chips, quickly ascertain their blood types, their medical history, their doctors' names, and their insurance information. Treatment begins almost immediately.
Joe is employed in a field that requires extensive travel, including overseas. His chip, no larger than a grain of rice, allows him to pay for meals in restaurants around the world, verify his identity at hotels and airports, gain access to his company's offices and innumerable other activities without coming into physical contact with cash or credit card touchpads. After dealing with the heightened health scares in the post-COVID era, he finds this reassuring.
Proponents of digital IDs and embedded microchips will frame them as modern, efficient tools that will make everyday life safer and more convenient. The potential benefits of instant identification during a health crisis and everyday convenience are undeniable, but many of us consider the risks far in excess of the gains. Convenience is a thin veneer over a deeper reality: digital IDs dramatically expand the power of the state and its ability to monitor, restrict, and control citizens. The debate is not simply about technology -- it's about the proper limits of government in a free society.
The Open Government Partnership notes that over a billion people worldwide lack formal identification, and digital systems could help them access banking, healthcare, and voting. Digital identity wallets, or apps
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I will take a pass on the Mark of the Beast.
You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat; you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught.
Maybe I’m being paranoid, but part of me think there is an effort to conflate Voter IDs from the SAVE Act with some sort of Mark of the Beast. Clearly they are different. An embedded microchip that allows the government to control your life is not the same as a plastic card that asserts your right to vote. But if the journalists spin these things the right way, we might get people opposing the SAVE act because it is a tool of Satan.
Tracking devices for selected representatives, criminals and their enablers. But I repeat myself.
Hell no!
The federal, state and local governments know exactly where I live via 1040s, a state ID card, and a property tax bill.
I think you’re not paranoid enough, if you think the SAVE Act will save you. It has some good ideas, but the people we are up against don’t care about voting, anyway. They will raise the dead to vote, count until they win, gerrymander, and, ultimately give any identification you acquire to illegal aliens.
A real SAVE act would bust some States back into territories. Some have forgotten what voting means.
I will defend my body against.
Same here.
AI might be used to see voters are living at a certain place.
If the AI doesn’t say yes, any ballot to be “mailed out” to the potential voter must be delivered directly to the person by process server.
I always carry a wallet when I leave my property.
It has my state ID, Medicare card and my Part D card.
But as it catches on it will become more and more inconvenient to be without it.
As it might be cell phones or credit cards.
But the goal is to make it compulsory.
For the children, your own good, to catch bad guys, whatever.
Note to self....leave cell phone home and get a low cost flip phone when attending demos and protests.
Joe is employed in a field that requires extensive travel, including overseas. His chip, no larger than a grain of rice, allows him to pay for meals in restaurants around the world, verify his identity at hotels and airports, gain access to his company's offices and innumerable other activities without coming into physical contact with cash or credit card touchpads. After dealing with the heightened health scares in the post-COVID era, he finds this reassuring.
So the benefits can be duplicated with an index card in your wallet and a rubber glove? Sign me up for that chip. < /s>
I have an idea: how about our elected representatives get chipped and tracked everywhere (including private trips to the Virgin Islands) along with all their transactions including stocks, bonds and real estate. If nothing bad happens with that information in the next 25 years, maybe then we can consider this for the general public... maybe.
Yes.
We need voter ID. We do not need digital ID.
Politicians love this stuff. I do not recall any politician ever doing anything to protect privacy or regulate data mining.
Is that why AI in your search bar is free?
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