Digital ID, Surveillance & Power: Convenience or Control?
The hosts discuss how identity has shifted from physical documents to interconnected data and argue the main risk isn’t the technology but the power infrastructure around it when digital ID, surveillance cameras, transactions, and government systems share the same networks.
They compare potential outcomes to China’s surveillance state, including blacklists and punishment through access to banking, jobs, and benefits, and question whether Canada’s digital ID rollout could enable similar abuses over time.
They emphasize that data never disappears, can be used years later, and can be exploited…
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