Just days after winning the federal election, President Emmanuel Macron authorized
the creation of a digital ID for France.
The “Digital ID
Guarantee Service” (SGIN) was signed into decree
following his victory over Marine Le Pen, which will allow France to be ‘compliant’
with the European Union’s digital ID.
The backlash
from the ‘Les Patriots’ group, which seeks independence
from the EU, was immediate.
“Just after the
election, the government announces the launch of ‘a digital identity
application’!” said leader Florian
Philippot.
“The goal: to put social credit in the Chinese way.
Control and surveillance company!” [translated from French]
“Let’s totally
reject this app and fight by any means!”
Macron’s
election victory has set off massive protests, wherein Macron has been
pelted with tomatoes:
France’s move
towards a centralized digital ID, and the corresponding resistance from
people concerned with a Chinese-style social credit system, is a conflict that’s
intensifying in many countries throughout the world.
Recently, for
example, Nigeria blocked 73 million residents from making phone
calls for not linking their cell phones to their national digital ID.
In Italy, a municipal government just
announced it’s rolling out a soft social credit score in the Fall, the
first of its kind in Europe.
Domestically, Canada hasn’t issued coercive tactics
to this level, and provinces are torn on implementing a digital ID.
While Alberta and Ontario have
already rolled theirs out, Saskatchewan recently scrapped its plan to launch one after
polling citizens who wanted nothing to do with it.
Instead, the
provincial government now says they’ll monitor uptake and feedback from
colleagues in other jurisdictions.
“We will be
watching very closely to observe how their digital ID programs progress,” a
Ministry of SaskBuilds official stated.
Moreover,
certain opposition parties and candidates are beginning to voice their concerns
against centralized digital ID and currency.
The Ontario
Party, led by Derek Sloan, has presented a petition to the Ontario
Legislature that proposes a ban on digital IDs.
CPC candidate
Pierre Poilievre also recently proposed that he would ban centralized digital
currency that the Liberal government snuck in their budget if
elected.
Source: TheCounterSignal.com
