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The Threat of Digital Identity
In: Was tun? Wie Freiheitsentrepreneure unser Zusammenleben revolutionieren (2025), pp. 485–500
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AbstractFew technologies will have a greater impact on the future of human flourishing and liberty than Digital Identity.Digital Identity is a technology that allows users to cryptographically prove the identity of a person, animal, plant, product, vehicle, transaction, or device. It is the technological basis for China’s much publicized “social credit score”. Many in the West mistakenly think that this technology is confined to Asia – when the largest adopters are the European Union and United States.This technology will embolden central planners, because it will give them unprecedented control over people and the economy. Alongside AI, it is the technology with the most potential for extreme abuse.Without strong free market alternatives, Digital ID might be used to destroy whatever freedom is left around the world.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thibault Serlet: The Threat of Digital Identity | 485 | ||
| Introduction | 485 | ||
| I. How Technology Enabled Central Planning in the Pre-Industrial Era | 485 | ||
| II. The Computerization of Central Planning | 487 | ||
| III. Digital Identity | 488 | ||
| IV. Digital Identity as a Tool of Central Planning | 489 | ||
| V. How Digital ID is Already Being Deployed to Centrally Plan the Economy | 489 | ||
| Carbon Tracking | 489 | ||
| Driver’s License for the Internet | 491 | ||
| Cryptocurrency KYC | 492 | ||
| Debanking | 492 | ||
| Meat Rationing | 494 | ||
| VI. Digital Identity is Not the Problem | 496 | ||
| VII. Digital ID as a Tool for Freedom | 496 | ||
| VIII. NSA Surveillance | 497 | ||
| IX. Digital ID for a Better Internet | 498 | ||
| Conclusion | 499 |