Digital IDs Just Went Live (Say Goodbye to Privacy)
Published: 2025-10-06
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Published: 2025-10-06
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Analyzed
Predictions from this Video
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European Union member countries are required to implement national digital ID wallets by 2026.
"In Europe, they passed a law last year that makes it a requirement for all member countries to roll out a national digital ID wallet by 2026."
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The UK government plans to make a free digital ID mandatory for the right to work by the end of the current parliamentary term.
"This government will make a new free of charge digital ID mandatory for the right to work by the end of this parliament."
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At least 25 US states have launched digital driver's license programs.
"In the US, at least 25 states have already launched digital driver's license programs."
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The United Nations aims to achieve legal identity for all by 2030.
"the United Nations has made it one of their goals, quote, legal identity for all by 2030."
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The number of national digital ID programs has doubled in the last decade, with over 100 countries currently having or developing such programs.
"In just the last decade, the number of national digital ID programs have doubled. Today, over a hundred countries either have one or are building one right now."
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China launched its digital ID system in the summer, integrating it with their social credit system.
"In China, they just launched their version this summer, which links it to their social credit system."
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South Korea, Singapore, Nigeria, and the United Arab Emirates are implementing digital ID systems.
"Countries like South Korea, Singapore, Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates are already doing this with their digital IDs."
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The EU's EIDS 2.0 law requires all member countries to offer a national digital ID wallet by 2026.
"In the European Union, for example, they already passed something called EIDS 2.0, know, which is a law that basically makes it a requirement for all countries in the European Union to offer a national digital ID wallet by 2026."
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UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer aims to make digital IDs a mandatory requirement for all citizens.
"In the UK, for example, their prime minister Kier Dharmmer, he wants to make these digital IDs a mandatory requirement for everyone."
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While the US lacks a single national digital ID system, 25 states have mobile driver's licenses, and 20 more are developing them.
"Now, here in the United States, we don't have one national system yet, but we're getting a lot closer. At least 25 states already have mobile driver's licenses and 20 others are working on them"
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The Biden administration issued an executive order for federal adoption of digital IDs.
"under President Biden, they already issued an executive order for federal adoption."
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Singapore's Sing Pass digital ID is used by over 4.5 million people.
"Singapore, for example, has something called Sing Pass, which is already being used by more than 4 and a.5 million people."
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South Korea launched a new digital ID app this year, replacing physical banking cards.
"South Korea also launched a new app this year and it's completely replaced their physical cards for banking."
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Nigeria is in the process of rolling out its own digital ID system.
"Nigeria is rolling out their own."
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The UAE's digital ID, UAE Pass, is linked to over 5,000 services.
"And we also have the UAE with something called the UAE Pass and that's connected to over 5,000 services."
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Estonia digitally processes 99% of public services, reportedly saving 2% of GDP annually.
"Estonia, for example, handles 99% of public services completely digitally. And they say it saves them around 2% of GDP every year."
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The EU's digital ID wallet, once active, will enable cross-border travel, tax payments, and services like bike rentals within member countries.
"The European Union says that once their wallet is live, you'll be able to travel across all the countries, pay taxes, and even rent a bike with the same app."
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In 2022, the Canadian government used emergency powers to order banks to freeze accounts associated with Freedom Convoy protesters.
"if you remember in 2022 during the freedom convoy protests in Canada, the government used emergency powers and ordered banks to freeze accounts linked to protesters."
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Earlier this year, the Georgian government reportedly froze bank accounts of lawyers providing aid to protesters, according to Amnesty International.
"There was also Georgia earlier this year where Amnesty International reported that the government froze the bank accounts of NOS's and lawyers who were providing legal aid to protesters"
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Digital IDs could enable dynamic pricing, where prices for goods and services are adjusted based on an individual's perceived circumstances like recent travel, financial status, and hunger.
"But imagine if that logic gets supercharged by digital IDs. Let's say your ID app shows that you just got off a 10-hour flight, right? The system knows where you've been. It knows your wallet balance. It knows you're hungry. So, the algorithm decides, you know, that person is stressed and they will probably pay more. And then boom, your sandwich is $25 instead of $12, but the person next to you might pay less just because that system thinks they're more price sensitive."
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Ticketmaster currently employs dynamic pricing, where ticket prices fluctuate based on demand.
"Ticket Master, for example, already uses dynamic pricing where the same ticket can jump in price minute by minute based purely on demand."
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Digital IDs could allow car insurance companies to use granular data such as driving history, ride logs, and location data to set premiums.
"Right now, companies use broad categories, right? But with digital ID, they could see your exact driving history, your Uber ride logs, where you hang out, all based on its ability to digitally track exactly where you are and where you've been."
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Certain US digital driver's license apps include a 'phone home' feature that logs every use of the ID, creating a real-time, timestamped record of an individual's location and activities for the government.
"Some digital driver's license apps in the US already have what's called a phone home feature. That means every time you use your ID at a bar, at an airport, or a hotel, it pings a government database. So now instead of just being a harmless ID, the government now has a timestamped log of everywhere you go and everything you do in real time."
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The combination of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and digital IDs could lead to programmable money, allowing governments to control where, when, and how currency can be spent, and even impose expiry dates.
"If you add in central bank digital currencies on top of all that, which are already being tested, as well as an API that companies can pay to access, and it's not really that hard to imagine a programmable like money that is tied to your biometrics, that gives the government the ability to program dollars that maybe stop working at certain stores for certain purchases or even dollars that expire after a certain date."
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India's Aadhaar digital ID system, the world's largest, has experienced multiple data breaches, exposing sensitive information, including biometrics, of a billion individuals.
"India's Adar system, for example, which is the biggest digital ID program in the world, has already had multiple leaks. Sensitive information from a billion people, including biometrics, was exposed."
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The UK government plans to mandate digital IDs for employment to combat illegal working.
"You must have uh ID, mandatory digital ID in order to work because we have to stop illegal working."
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