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The Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Act 2023 comes into force on 1 July, 2024 i.e. tomorrow. Tracy Coxhead has set up a petition to repeal the Act. The petition closes at the end of next month, 31 July, 2024.
1. Petition to Repeal the Act
Petition request
That the House of Representatives repeal the Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Act 2023.
Petition reason
This Bill passed its first reading on 19/10/21 without opposition from any party. Public submissions were open for 6 weeks and by closing date (2/12/2021) over 4,500 submissions were received, 4,049 in the last 2 days. Since then, I have not been aware of any public awareness campaign advising the public of the intent and purpose of the framework. I believe there has been a lack of transparency and the benefit of the framework has not been illustrated.
You can sign the petition here: https://petitions.parliament.nz/be79f174-3143-4455-bed5-08dc890a778f
Update: You can listen to Tracey Coxhead, Councillor, talk about her petition on Reality Check Radio here. Rodney explains why he finds this enabling Digital ID Act chilling. What is the problem in our lives that this act will fix? Nothing! But how many problems will it create?
Denmark and Norway have rejected digital IDs. NZ should too. Tracey is immensely concerned. Find out why.
2. NZDSOS sent out an email yesterday.
Here’s an excerpt.
The Act's stated primary purpose is establishing a secure framework for New Zealanders to store digital information.
Presently, your participation in this system is described as "voluntary."
But where have we heard that before, and where could this lead?
It would be entirely possible for the government and those behind it to control our every move—from the food we buy to whether we can travel and perhaps even whether we can access services such as public transport and medical care.
Was the 'vaccine passport' (digital health certificate, green pass etc) an attempt to get the world's population into a digital ID system? It made no medical sense, especially since the injection did not stop infection or transmission of c-19, so why was it pushed so hard?
Nearly every New Zealander is now on the Aotearoa Immunisation Register (AIR) with a record of how many covid injections have been received. Those who received none are also on this register. Imagine if this register was linked to other aspects of personal data—phone, address, car registration, family, shopping habits, bank accounts, fingerprints, iris pattern, facial recognition data... And uploaded to the Cloud.
We could lose our sovereignty and become a number in the national database, with the potential for our every move to be tracked and scored against a set of government criteria. There is the potential for 'punishment' for non-compliance and lockdowns for any number of invisible threats as deemed necessary if we comply.
With digital currency imminent and linked to our digital identity for our 'safety' against big bank corruption, could we lose all control of our finances much like we lost all control of our choice to make health decisions with mandated jabs?
It is pertinent that we take action and shout about this Act coming into force.
What can you do?
Tracey Coxhead has aptly submitted a petition urging the repeal of the Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Act 2023 to the House of Representatives.
Signatures will be accepted until July 31, 2024.
Currently, the petition has gathered 4,750 signatures. The more support received, the stronger the message to Parliament that New Zealanders are united in protecting our digital rights and freedoms, not just paying lip service to privacy concerns.
Now is the time to take action—there's less than 2 days before the act comes into effect.
Change is on the horizon, and our actions today will shape a better future for all.
Update: NZDSOS have since written a post on the subject, Digital Identity Services Trust Framework: Another Threat to Democratic Freedoms
3. Our Digital Future: Jodie Bruning on RCR with Alistair Harding
You can listen here.
These words from Jodie stuck in my mind:
I grew up very conservatively and I was always taught NOT to put all your eggs in one basket…
It’s a big risk if you centralize everything and have everything in this digital wallet that potentially can be surveilled…
The submission Jodie refers to in the interview can be found here,
and the funny Pauline Hanson cartoon on Digital Identity here. It’s worth watching and sharing.
4. Living with Compulsory IDs in India
Listen (from just after the 28 minute mark) to find out just how mandatory a voluntary ID system can become. In India, the government now has everything about their citizens in one central system. Essentially, you cannot get any services in India without your Digital ID.
The system in India has been hacked. 850 million Indian citizens had their data stolen—that is their finger prints, their bank account, their mobile numbers. If it’s online, it is hackable.
5. More on Digital ID Dangers
Lawyer Reggie Littlejohn, in this very short clip, sums up the dangers of digital IDs at the Lawyers’ Press Conference in Geneva on 1st June, 2024.
Here is the WEF chart Reggie refers to.
Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/davos-agenda-digital-identity-frameworks/
You can listen to the entire International Lawyers’ Press Conference here or here.
More Information
Update: Free NZ has also done an article on the subject worth reading. See here. https://freenz.substack.com/p/digital-id-push-begins-in-nz
6. What you can do
Spread the word.
Write to our politicians. If you didn’t know about this Act, why not let them know that. We do not have a functioning democracy if people are not informed. Since legacy media are not doing their job, perhaps the government should refer people to other media like RCR.