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Vaccine passports have always been the plan for digital identity and the transforming of governments for the 21st Century. 🧵
It doesn’t matter if they say it’s for the greater good, no society can truly be free when its citizens are denied the most basic of human rights.
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It is now evident that vaccine passports will creep towards digital identity schemes & social credit systems and once we begin to surrender more of our fundamental freedoms, there’s no guarantee we’ll ever get them back.
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Quote: “Many in power hope to make compliance to digital IDs intertwined with vaccination, if not by force, then through coercion” — Andreas Vou, European Data Journalism Network said.
europeandatajournalism.eu/eng/News/Data-…
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Citizens worry that health status apps will be tied to a digital id schemes, which can Quote: “Determine what products, services and information we can access – or, conversely, what is closed off to us,” according to a 2018 report from the WEF.
www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_INSIG…
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April 2020: Quote: "Biometric digital IDs can be a gamechanger. They can help governments target population segments e.g., healthcare professionals or elderly population, verify people who have received vaccination, and have a clear record."
jpost.com/health-science…
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10 April 2020: The fact remains that biometric ID cards were always on the cards from the get-go and were part of the Governments' overall lockdown exit strategy.
news.sky.com/story/coronavi…
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The UK Government now seems even more determined to give David Icke fresh material for his next new books. What’s next? A barcode on our heads?
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The very point of vaccinations – or so we were repeatedly told – was that they would allow us to regain our rights as fast as possible. Instead, they are now being used as cover, even justification, for the introduction of a whole new architecture of mass surveillance.
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I’d rather individuals were invited to judge risk for themselves than ordain the Government as guarantor of all health and safety.
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March 5th, 2021: Quote: “Vaccine passports can be used as an incentive to change behaviour. They signal what society expects from individuals. They exemplify a social norm that individuals are expected to comply with." Joan Costa LSE.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview…
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Quote: “While vaccine passports will be seen by some as a way to increase freedom, for those without a passport they would constitute a denial of liberties that others are being granted” — Ada Lovelace Institute
adalovelaceinstitute.org/summary/covid-…
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Quote: “Vaccine passports would create the backbone of an oppressive digital ID system and could easily lead to a health apartheid that’s incompatible with a free and democratic country” — Silkie Carlo, Big Brother Watch
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2021/01/the-gu…
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Quote: “Digital IDs would lead to sensitive records spanning medical, work, travel, and biometric data about each and every one of us being held at the fingertips of authorities and state bureaucrats,” Carlo told The Guardian.
theguardian.com/society/2021/j…
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I don’t agree with mandatory or coercive rollouts of COVID vaccine passports because I believe in the individual’s right to choose what to put in their body and that nobody should be denied their rights for choosing to abstain after their 2/3/4/N shots.
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Quote: "The presence of a Digital ID Wallet on a citizen's smartphone opens a direct communication channel to any government department, citizens can benefit from timely reminders on vaccinations."
thalesgroup.com/en/markets/dig…
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9th June 2020: Very Important Paper:
"Mobility credentials are also only one particular use case for digital identity, so governments should build this as a standalone piece of infrastructure to be applied and reused in different cases."
institute.global/policy/digital…
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From the same paper:
"The need for digital identity is clear. To deal with the invisible threat of a contagious virus, states need a way to embed a visible and verifiable layer of trust into society."
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"We need a way to grant granular permissions for people to credibly assert that they can safely enter these spaces."
"Need to reopen economies & societies won’t go away, & mobility credentials underpinned by a digital identity can play a vital role in achieving this."
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And from Embracing a Covid Pass to Reopen with Confidence Posted on: 12th May 2021.
"A digital Covid identity can be easily created that is both secure & simple to use. An app to allow people to access their secure health records."
institute.global/policy/embraci…
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In above article it says: The "Next step in plans to govern use of digital identities is revealed".
"Plans reveal how data can be shared between organisations so they run smoother & users can access services more easily."
Linked Article below.
institute.global/policy/transfo…
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The dressed-up COVID passport is a digital ID platform & that includes social credit & risk scoring. Any other functionality can be loaded onto that platform, it's total control of our behaviours incl health social media posts & purchases. A global biometric digital ID.
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