Technocrats Have Already Passed The Digital Gulag By Stealth

If you've browsed Project Afuera, you might have noticed an obscure quango which strikes one as odd. They are all odd, but one in particular. The Office for Digital Identities & Attributes has quietly been around for a year or two as part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), an office led by the Chief Satanic Covid Vampire, which we don't need. Its site actually says explicitly, "The government is not making digital identities mandatory or introducing ID cards."

You might be forgiven in thinking it has something to do with how the push for ID cards by Labour in 2006 was recycled into the infrastructure for biometric residency permits in 2008. This is compounded by e-Passport gates and digital driving licences.

During Sunak's reign, the civil service exploited his fetish for emerging technology to introduce identity infrastructure. Under the disastrous tenure of Herr Starmer, his Sith Master, former Trotskyist Tony Blair, replete with former demon hoard, want to sell their prison cards as a cure for illegal immigration. Say what you like about the Dark Lord, but his cynicism is impeccable.

There has been a another flurry of discussion regarding Digital IDs because of Starmer's demand to impose a form of mandatory ID because we are "behind the curve" of other authoritarian regimes. The rationale of the usual satanic demons within the administrative state this time is it will help solve the immigration crisis: i.e. stop small dinghies of military-age men from the Third World throwing away their IDs in the English Channel in order to claim statelessness. Quite frankly, as anyone with any sense can see, this is nonsense. It was nonsense last time; it's nonsense this time. The "reason" changes, the plan doesn't.

The boats cannot be stopped and people cannot be deported because of a series of laws such as the Human Rights Act (HRA), which entrenches absurd ECHR international rulings into domestic law. These are compounded and self-reinforced by a myriad of others: Refugee Convention (non-refoulement), Immigration Rules part 11 - asylum, etc. as well as a one-sided activist judiciary. Digital IDs solve none of these issues. None. 

Also, it was never intended to.

What it does do is provide new identities for stateless "refugees" arriving in dinghies, which can then be deemed legitimate. After 25 year-old rapist Abdul throws away his real passport he used to get to France in the English Channel, he can be given a new digital ID as transgender 18 year-old Francois from Algeria, needing free cash and accommodation near schoolgirls.

UN Requirements By 2030

In 2015, the UN published a plan titled 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (commonly referred to as "Agenda 2030"), a 15-year strategy member states agreed to follow for the good of humanity in general. Naturally, despite their seemingly good intentions, most UN ideas are ignored, and few, if any, reach their goals at all. And of course, they don't help themselves with the terminology in prompting endless mythological suspicion (i.e. "conspiracy theories").

The preamble from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Sustainable Development, describes the Agenda for 2030 as:

This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan. We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which we are announcing today demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda. They seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve. They seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental.

All very noble. Standard old-school left-wing Comintern stuff: global peace, poverty, etc. The usual boilerplate with some new Marxian buzzwords: collective, equality, empowerment, sustainable, stakeholder, and so on. It's kind a supranational Green Party, but with funding.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) sound rather benign, if absurdly idealistic and grandiose, The UN aims to create the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

1. No Poverty - End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
2. Zero Hunger - End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
3. Good Health and Well-being - Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
4. Quality Education - Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
5. Gender Equality - Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
6. Clean Water and Sanitation - Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
7. Affordable and Clean Energy - Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.
8. Decent Work and Economic Growth - Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure - Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.
10. Reduced Inequalities - Reduce income inequality within and among countries.
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities - Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
12. Responsible Consumption and Production - Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
13. Climate Action - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
14. Life Below Water - Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development.
15. Life on Land - Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss.
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions - Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.
17. Partnerships for the Goals - Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

The 169 targets (!!!) associated with these goals describe a rough outline for member states to follow. Each target typically has multiple indicators which provide precise objectives and requirements for governments to meet. The UN produces an annual report assessing how far countries have progressed along the 2030 Agenda and whether they are close to meeting the precise indicators. Typically, not far. If they even read it.

It's important to acknowledge at this point no-one from the UN is elected, and it has zero mandate whatsoever to make demands of any nation. It even sounds official as a "department." The United Nations is not, and was never meant to be, any form of government. It is a conflict-resolution mechanism for avoiding another world war.

How Is This Related to Digital ID?

The SGD Target 16.9 (goal 16, target 9) is :

by 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.

The UN and nearly every other global governance institution has used SGD Target 16.9 to launch and promote far-reaching digital identity industries in (nearly) every member country.

How biometric cards help poor kids in Equatorial Guinea is anyone's guess.

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) is working with member states (including the UK) to aid and build this digital ID infrastructure.

The UNDP has produced its own “model governance framework for digital identity system” which it considers a foundational element of digital public infrastructure. It is heavily pushed onto member states via the UN Legal Identity Agenda Task Force.

The UN Digital Legal ID Governance Framework consists of 8 sub-categories, which are the following:

1. Equality and Non-Discrimination
2. Accountability and the Rule of Law
3. Legal and Regulatory Framework
4. Capable Institutions
5. Data Protections and Privacy
6. User Value
7. Procurement and Anti-Corruption
8. Participation and Access to Information

The section on Equality and Non-Discrimination has a very revealing description:

Equality and non-discrimination are essential elements of a rights-based approach to digital legal identity. The governance framework outlines key elements that advance these objectives, specifically highlighting protections against discrimination, including on the basis of sex as well as other grounds for discrimination prohibited in international human rights law, such as race, ethnicity, religion, and disability. It is important to also consider the rights of non-citizens, and ensure that those without proof of legal identity and nationality have the means of verifying who they are.

This is particularly important in the context of stateless persons, and this element includes sub-elements intended to evaluate the role of the digital legal identity system in preventing and reducing statelessness.

The equality and non-discrimination element includes the following sub-elements: protections against discrimination, and the rights of non-citizens.

Refugees arriving on British shores tend to deliberately dispose of any identity documents they possess, so they can claim they are stateless. Not having the means to identifying yourself is the key to illegal immigration.

It is noteworthy the UNDP model of Digital ID will be used to ensure the rights of "non-citizens," and to advance anti-discrimination measures on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, religion, and disability.

The YooKay Push For Universal Digital Identity

The UNDP model of Digital ID sounds significantly different to what Labour are marketing their Digital ID system in providing. In fact, it sounds like it will further enshrine universal "human rights" for non-citizens and make it more difficult to stop the illegal immigration or deport offenders.

Tony Blair, the Dark Lord, has been a zealous advocate for Digital IDs and building out the digital public infrastructure for several years now, and tying them into most aspects of public and private life. Given the recent suggestion by his Sith apprentice, Starmer, of the government's intention to – yet again – demand mandatory Digital IDs and the subsequent pushback from several groups, one may be led to the conclusion the government will have to face down parliament or pass legislation.

You’d be mistaken. The government has already passed the necessary primary legislation to implement and impose a “Digital Verification Service” which is all encompassing and centralised, via the Data (Use and Access) Bill 2025.

Identity cards are like immigration, in the true Fabian attrition methodology. It doesn't matter how many times the British people say no, we get them again two years later until enough people just giving up saying no.

The administrative state has been working on this for many years, and the initial documents regarding the digital identification system were first released in February 2021. The Tory Party was equally enthusiastic about this topic when they attempted to pass the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill which was introduced in March 2023, and achieved similar goals to the DUAB.

Under the Theresa May government in 2017, the government assured the UN by stating: 

The UK Government is firmly committed to delivering the Goals both at home and around the world. The UK was at the forefront of negotiating the Goals and will be at the forefront of delivering them. The underlying aims of the Goals are reflected in the UK Government’s programme of work, and as such they are being embedded in Single Departmental Plans (SDP).

The May government in 2019 then published a 235-page voluntary report (Voluntary National Review of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals) detailing their commitments to the Agenda 2030s SDGs, describing their plan for achieving these goals, and assessing the progress made so far.

This push toward digitised centralised identity, verification, and access has been supported cross-party and regime-wide.

Data Use and Access Act 2025

The Data Use and Access Act is a highly technical 233-page piece of primary legislation which reached Royal Assent back in June. It is a ridiculous document which over-regulates to the point of oblivion, and was proposed by Labour peer Baroness Jones of "online safety" Whitchurch and "online safety" Fabian Labour MP Peter "no usable qualifications" Kyle, via the pointless Department for Science, Innovation and Technology we don't need.

It is exceptionally unlikely either of them know what any of it means, or has even read it. Both of these people are quantifiable insane and have views far to the left of any reasonable person.

The only part that seemed contentious amongst most observers and in the media, was regarding copyright rules and AI data usage. Only a few social media commentators voiced concerns regarding the legislative establishment of a foundation for digital ID and a far reaching centralised verification and access regime that potentially impacts both public and private life for all British citizens.

It certainly matters now, after the Online Safety Act disaster.

The Act is broken up into 8 parts: Access to Customer Data and Business Data; Digital Verification Services; National Underground Asset Register; Register of Births and Deaths; Data Protection and Privacy; The Information Commission; Other Provisions About Use of, or Access to, Data; Final Provisions.

The primary focus will be on the Digital Verification Services and its offshoots.

Are you asleep yet? That's the entire point. It's so boring, nobody would ever pursue looking any deeper into it.

The core of the "Digital Verification Services" section is the establishment of the “trust framework” which form the bedrock of explanatory guides and certifications the maze of digital identity service companies, individuals, organisations, and the government can interact with each other, “trustfully”. 

This problem has been solved endlessly by the private market in 1% of the space, time, and money. Inevitably, in a technocratic bureaucracy like the EU, it requires three books for just the index to achieve less.

The trust framework (which has only been released in an introductory form) establishes the conditions in which organisations must operate if they want to be certified by the government. It is currently not mandatory and is stated to “not set out the design for a centralised or mandatory national digital identity system” in the trust framework’s early (gamma 0.4) document release.

However, it is unclear at this time from the Act whether the Secretary of State is able to make the trust framework (and other currently optional aspects) mandatory without further primary legislation. We do not understand the extent of the powers of the soon-to-be newly created Information Commission and its interactions. We do know it is one more useless quango which will cost another fortune.

A rough sketch for the Digital Identity system for individuals operates as the following:

• A user creates Digital Identity through interacting with an Identity Service Provider, which creates an initial set of identifying attributes which are uniquely and verifiably attached to the user. 
• The identifying attributes are sent to a Holding Service Provider where the user’s Verified Digital Identity is stored.
• The user can continue to add attributes (any thing that a person is or has or has been designated with) to their Digital Identity with Attribution Service Providers (any trust framework certified organisation) creating, storing, bounding, and matching attributes and sending them to the appropriate parties.

This is called overengineering. It's absurd.

The figure below provides a simple demonstration.

Part 2 of the Data Use and Access Act (Digital Verification Services) has not commenced yet, and it is set to commence several months after Royal Assent (June 2025). The released trust framework carefully lays out the requirements for each provider in order to get certified and how they (and the users) will be scored. Further details should be released within the next few months. The coming release of this information and implementation of the rest of the Data Act on an uninformed, and likely hostile, public, likely have members of the regime worried.  

It is difficult to believe apprentice Starmer, of the Sith, just happened to start pushing for Digital Verification Services (DVS) and Digital ID because he is now concerned with illegal immigration and "stopping the boats."

It appears more like an opportunity to politically exploit a separate and independent issue; to impose unpopular and substantial provisions against much of the (uninformed) public’s desire, and even many in his own party.

Digital IDs and DVS were coming into being regardless of Starmers recent pronouncements, and his deceitful marketing ploy to rebrand them as necessary to tackle illegal immigration is contemptible. He is playing on people’s emotions and the concerned mood of the nation regarding sexual assaults committed by illegal immigrants and false refugees. 

The complete lack of scrutiny by MPs and figures in the media of the Data Use and Access Bill when it was going through parliament, – which is understandable given how dry it is – is shameful, It exemplifies how those with ulterior motives are able to bypass parliamentary and public scrutiny to achieve what they want through legislation.

Other Aspects of the Digital ID Push

n January, the government announced the coming of a GOV.UK Wallet and Digital Driving Licence. The digital GOV.UK Wallet is quickly being deployed and expanded, where the government describes it as a way to prove a user’s identity, eligibility, suitability, and qualifications. The Wallet is being heavily integrated into the digital identity sector and the Digital Verification Service trust framework will be required for non-public bodies to use information in the Wallet.

This has raised previous concerns. It is a part of a vast rollout and expansion of the digital identity services industry being imposed and pushed by the government, which the Data Use and Access Act legally establishes. It's also a colossal black hole for money, as every civil service attempt at technology always is.

Additionally, techUK has been getting in on the Digital ID action: they have a working group dedicated to Digital IDs and have been holding annual conferences regarding ways to expand their use in society for the past several years. They are hosting another summit in October, where they will be launching their Digital ID policy report and be discussing:

Ensuring public and private solutions operate on a level playing field under the Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework (DIATF).

Unlocking new use cases, setting adoption targets, and building public trust through awareness campaigns.

Driving regulatory clarity, enabling innovation sandboxes, and embedding digital ID in a ten-year national strategy.

Nobody has voted for this, but they're doing it anyway. In fact, we've voted against it endlessly. But they're all going ahead with planning as if we agreed, when we didn't.

The Tony Blair Institute (TBI), vampiric lair of the Dark Lord and his demons, has also been pushing papers, conferences, videos, etc regarding Digital IDs since its existence. In many respects, if one scrolls through simple videos on the Youtube channel or in their Future of Britain 2024 Conference, you get the impression this potential dystopia is the most important religious doctrine they care about. It's not an idea; it's an obsession.

An On/Off Switch For Liberty

Whether this push and intense rollout of Digital IDs is related to a giant plot by "globalists" to create a Chinese-style Social Credit System for the Western World remains to be seen. It's certainly not unfair to say it would be a tyrant's wet dream, and simplify coercion of any population by providing a simple on/off switch for individual liberty.

What technocrat wouldn't want an absurd consolidation project greasing up the trough for three decades they get to manage?

It may just be much of our political class is incredibly lazy, aren’t aware of what they legislate, and frankly don’t care. Very few people would find that implausible.

The same goes for the civil service and members of the administrative state: perhaps they received suggestions from the UN, which all comparable countries are also doing, that this is necessary and good for society, and given a framework in which they are able to mindlessly follow. All possible.

However, it is also likely some are “live players” who are high-agency and understand how to skillfully implement their legislative agendas with limited scrutiny by exploiting the weaknesses of all them.

We know the one thing which stops them: daylight.

A driving licence or passport is not linked to government will. It is a portable document without your genetic code or retina structure embedded as an RFID fingerprint. When you take a passport to a bank, the clerk does not call the government and ask if the passport is authentic.

What is changing here in the digital world is pre-authorisation by the state.

The way this works is quite simple:

1. Each person is required to be identified digitally as atomic unit of economic zone #YOUKAY3837485.
2. Digital ID is required to "verify" access to specific goods and services.
3. Digital ID is required to "verify" access to all government services, which are consolidated into one central system. (<— you are here)
4. Illegal migrants who are "stateless" (ahem) are given new identities when they turn up.
5. Legislation is passed to require almost all businesses to "verify" a user's identity and/or status (e.g. debit card/Apple Pay authentication, hiring a car, boarding flights, starting electric cars, employment eligibility for a new job, hotel bookings, etc.)
6. Legislation is passed to allow the government to deny verification by regulation (secondary legislation) for endlessly spiraling reasons.

This is no Orwellian fantasy: the process is already hidden away in the Sentencing Bill 2025, which attempts to steal income from speech "offenders" and ban them from pubs and events. It is already being threatened in print by ministers as a promise to "take away the things you love."

If you're in any doubt how sinister all of this is, consider the following incontrovertible fact: all that is needed to control access to harmful material on the internet a one-paragraph bill which forces sites to paywall.