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This tweet from Iceland resident Leon Hill vividly describes what it's like to live in a nation with digital ID's. Although having a single, government-approved form of identification may seem safe and convenient, Hill makes it clear that convenience comes with a heavy price: the complete elimination of your privacy, where anyone can find out anything about your life. Your ability to rent an apartment, buy a home, have a bank account, and receive medical care all revolve around your digital ID. Any life choice you make that gets linked to your ID number can be viewed by the police without a warrant. You'll never know who is watching you, or why. Of all the challenges facing humanity today, digital ID's have to be at the top of the stack. Without them, the rest of the totalitarian control grid can't be built. Stand up and fight back...we're running out of time.

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"Australia just passed its Digital Identity Bill into law. I'm Australian, but live in Iceland: a county that already has an all-encompassing digital ID system. If you're wondering how Australia's new system will play out, I'll tell you here.

And also, how Australians who don't want a digital ID can attempt to protect themselves...at least for a short while. 

In Iceland, the digital ID system is linked to each person's kennitala, or social security number. I sign into everything with my electronic ID (rafraen skilriki) via my phone. Any time I access my bank account, phone services, accounting, tax, insurance, credit score, manage my assets (car/house), power bill, medical record, when I vote, or even want to pull up a store receipt of something I've bought, it's all linked to my digital ID.

Everything in one place. Everything.

You cannot NOT have a digital ID to live in Iceland. It's impossible. You can't get power turned on, get a phone number, buy or register a car, rent or buy a house, or even buy certain items without having a kennitala or digital ID. You need one. This has its benefits (it makes life more streamlined when you're trying to do something in daily life), but it also means there is no privacy at all in Iceland. Anyone can look up where I live. The license plate of my car. How much tax I paid last year. My phone number. You name it. It's public and available - and all you need is my kennitala to find it all out.

But the government has access to more.

The Icelandic government and tax office has access to my bank accounts and knows every transaction I make, what I spend, and what I earn. They don't need a warrant, or anything else to access it - it's theirs. They just need probable cause to look at it.

Australians, this is what's coming for you. Over the coming years, the government will make it impossible to opt out of the digital ID system. You'll need one for everything. And most importantly, they'll coerce Australians into adopting it by creating laws that link it to the most important thing you need to survive in today's modern world: your bank account.

They'll do it on the grounds of anti-money laundering and financial safety. The gov't will enforce laws onto banks (among the many ID and verification laws already mandated on banks) that if you don't have the digital ID, you won't be able to open, keep, or use a bank account. If you refuse, you'll effectively be locked out of society. Because in today's modern world, you need access to banking services to survive.

Banking will be first. Then everything else in society will be linked to your digital ID.

Nothing will ever again be private. Just like in Iceland today, the government will know everything. Always. Forever.