WEF report admits digital ID could be used for "surveillance and persecution"

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has admitted in a new report that digital IDs are exclusionary by nature and can facilitate “the identification, surveillance and persecution of individuals or groups.”

In its June 2023 Insight Report titled “Reimagining Digital ID,” the WEF described the potential risks of the widespread implementation of a digital ID.

“Perhaps the greatest risks arising from digital ID are exclusion, marginalization and oppression,” the report warns.

“Several reports have identified a link between a lack of official ID and exclusion from full participation in society,” the report states. “Yet by reifying conditional access, ID is, by its very nature, exclusionary.”

“It is often members of historically marginalized groups who face the harshest forms of exclusion,” the document adds.

When speaking about “marginalized groups” the WEF is referring to refugees, women, and racial minorities while ignoring the fact that during the COVID crisis it was the people who refused to take dangerous and ineffective COVID shots who were excluded by governments around the world.

This discrimination against the unvaccinated was facilitated by vaccine passports, which, according to another WEF report, “by nature serve as a form of digital identity.”...

The risk of near-total surveillance and control of entire populations, like in communist China, is in fact a significant danger that critics of digital IDs have repeatedly warned about. This risk is amplified if digital IDs are combined with Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), as this combination could pave the way for a totalitarian surveillance state.

The WEF report also recognizes the relationship between digital IDs and CBDCs, as it states that “some nations are beginning to understand digital ID as a prerequisite to developing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) and other payment innovations.”

The WEF report further notes that, even if digital IDs are not mandated by law, citizens could still be coerced into using them as they would otherwise be excluded from many parts of society.

“As an ID system expands, the consequences of not participating in it can become so severe as to make registration effectively unavoidable,” the report states. “When access to a good or service is conditioned upon the possession of a form of ID, and that ID is widespread, individuals may be effectively coerced into obtaining that form of identification, even if there is no legal basis for requiring it.”

This is something that many suffered firsthand during the COVID crisis, as the unvaccinated were in many countries banned from entering restaurants, stores, cultural events, and even their workplaces, in an attempt to coerce them into taking the COVID shots.