United Nations Moves Ahead to Next Stage of Global Digital IDs

While the world is distracted — and understandably so — by wars and atrocities in the Middle East and Ukraine, the work of fastening the shackles of tyranny on all the world’s peoples has been continuing unabated in the halls of the United Nations. 

The unelected would-be rulers who smugly strut through the halls of the UN are not forging fetters of iron or bars of steel, but virtual controls through which they envision dominating and ruling the individual lives of each person on the planet.  

Such ambition sounds — as it always does — ludicrously impractical and realistically impossible. But that perception is only an artifact of normalcy bias. Most people do not have access to or a full appreciation of the nature of the technologies they interact with each day. But those technologies — for all the good they can do — can be perverted rather effectively into a digital prison.

The walls of this digital prison are comprised of four interlocking technologies: global digital ID, global health records, central bank digital currencies and social credit scores — enabled using digital tracking technologies and interlocking databases. Using these tools, each under active development, a centralized authority — such as the United Nations — could regulate each person’s life down to the most seemingly insignificant detail. 

We are already sadly familiar with aspects of this developing prison. Deplatforming as a form of censorship is now the norm. Debanking, a foretaste of what will be possible at scale in a world of central bank digital currencies and social credit scores, has emerged in a big way in both Canada and the United Kingdom. And, of course, health passes took a big step toward normalization as a result of the pandemic.

Global digital ID is an acknowledged initiative as part of the UN Agenda 2030 plan. “By 2030,” says the text of goal 16.9 of Agenda 2030’s sustainable development goals (SDGs), the UN and its galaxy of participating organizations will “provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.” 

In mid-September, the UN announced that it had developed a framework for the next stage of global digital ID development. 

“Acknowledging the burgeoning potential and significance of digital legal ID,” the UN Development Program (UNDP) said, it “has taken the initiative to draft a model governance framework. This blueprint is designed to aid the swift establishment of digital legal ID systems globally.” 

There have been several recent signs that the UN push to turbocharge global digital ID development has been gaining steam: 

• In August, the nation of Ghana was set to begin issuing digital IDs to newborn children

• India and the UN announced a “team up” effort to speed up adoption of digital public infrastructure (DPI), including digital ID.

• Two dozen African nations held events to celebrate “ID Day.” According to BiometricUpdate, a site tracking digital ID developments, the organization ID4Africa championed ID Day “to create awareness on the need for governments to provide every citizen with proof of legal ID in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.9.”

In the United States, the NGO ID2020 was founded in 2014 to begin the worldwide development push for digital IDs with the United Nations. The first ID2020 conference was held at the UN two years later. The goal of the conference, according to a UN press conference at the time, was to harness “the Power of Digital Legal Identities for Global Good.”  

The founder of ID2020, who was at that 2016 press conference was John Edge. In an August 2023 press release announcing a new joint project between ID2020 and the Digital Impact Alliance, Edge put the end game of digital ID into simple and stark terms. 

“[W]e established ID2020 to be a time-bound exploration of alternative systems for individuals to prove they exist,” Edge said. 

Such spectacular hubris. Such diabolical depravity. Human value and existence requires neither approval nor recognition from the self-ordained transnational elite. It is merely a recipe for their desire to construct a global gulag over which they believe they can rule with the digital simulacrum of an iron fist. 

The John Birch Society and The New American magazine have long warned of the machinations of the global elite and their nascent world government at the UN. Alone among organizations, the JBS offers a path to oppose this global tyranny, most directly with the long-standing campaign to “Get US Out of the UN” and to get the UN out of the US.