Yesterday, the British House of Lords brought the looming end of online anonymity one step closer when they voted to support an amendment to the pending Children’s Wellbeing and...

Two days ago, the British government announced a U-turn on their proposed digital identity, and that the much-anticipated “BritCard” would no longer be mandatory to work in the UK....

We’re only ten days into 2026, and we’ve already got a war, a revolution and now an incipient social media ban. Allegedly. Apparently, X’s GrokAI is editing photos to...

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...

As everyone knows by now, the UK government has rolled out new digital identity verification requirements for directors through Companies House. What people may not be aware of is...

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...

Hakeem Anwar of AbovePhone.com returns to the de-program to discuss his latest report: “Life Under Digital ID: A Global Analysis with Solutions.” We talk about what digital ID is,...

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...

The proposed rollout of the so-called BritCard is a bait-and-switch psychological operation (psyop). The evident purpose is to frame the debate about digital ID in the UK by fundamentally misrepresenting what...

In my previous article I suggested that the UK’s proposed “mandatory” digital ID, called the BritCard, was a bait and switch psyop. I posited that the arguments presented by Keir Starmer’s purported Labour government,...

Apparently, in order to be able to work in the UK, we will all be forced to adopt digital ID—the mandatory so-called BritCard. There is absolutely no public appetite for...

This post was updated on 03/10/25 to incorporate breaking news. And so the UK’s Digital ID is official. Not legal, no laws have been passed, not even real in...

Starting this month, banks all across Vietnam will begin deleting over 86,000,000 bank accounts that have not been “verified” under the countries new digital ID scheme. The State Bank...

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...

It looks like we can add another to the growing mountain of problems that digital IDs are going to solve for all of us. We already know that digital...

I’m starting to think a full-scale, nationwide compulsory digital ID won’t ever be a thing. Not officially, anyway. Not for quite a while. It’s a vibe I feel coming...

Part two of a four part series, you can read part one HERE. The Statistical Register being created by Stats NZ doesn’t appear to fit with the Privacy Principles...

A new report from a British government think tank offers some clear insights into the Starmer administration’s plan to introduce a universal digital ID. That digital ID – in...

In the final weeks of his time as UK Prime Minister in 2007, Tony Blair made an oddly casual but revealing remark about the climate crisis. “Don’t worry about...

The Independent Media Alliance panel convenes again, this time to discuss Catherine Austin Fitt’s recent article which itemizes all the ways the Trump administration is fostering the creation of...