{"id":1645502,"date":"2022-09-17T09:09:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1645502"},"modified":"2022-09-17T09:09:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T13:09:28","slug":"the-eu-is-speeding-towards-digital-id-currency-and-biometric-systems-for-tracking-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-eu-is-speeding-towards-digital-id-currency-and-biometric-systems-for-tracking-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU is Speeding Towards Digital ID, Currency, and Biometric Systems for Tracking Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-eu-is-speeding-towards-digital-id-currency-and-biometric-systems-for-tracking-citizens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1645502&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"code-block code-block-8\">\n<p><\/div>\n<p>A consortium of six European nations is pushing for a new, digital, cross-border payment system which ultimately aims to combine the EU Digital Identification program with a digital euro.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobidconsortium.com\/\">NOBID<\/a> (Nordic-Baltic eID) project \u2013 which is comprised of the governments of Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Latvia and Norway \u2013 is being supported by multinational banks, large technology firms, and other government agencies from across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>NOBID\u2019s website describes the project \u2013 which sounds eerily similar the kinds of social credit system used by countries like Communist China \u2013 as the brainchild of the unelected European Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe payment use case is recognized as a key use case based on several rationales, one being the potential extension to the Digital Euro,\u201d they claim. In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobidconsortium.com\/our-proposal\/\">current stage<\/a>, the project will likely link national bank accounts to the centralized application, and will act as intermediary between banks and merchants.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Digital Euro has not yet been deployed and is slowly looking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2022\/09\/07\/digital-euro-to-focus-on-personal-use-not-web3-eu-officials-say\/\">enable<\/a> its application in a peer-to-peer framework, and such projects can drastically help to advance final implementation. A prototype phase for the ECB issued Digital Euro currency might be utilized by the end of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Tor Alvik, project manager of the consortium said, <em>\u201c<\/em>We are hugely excited to turn the EU vision into a reality and make smoother, more readily available ID services possible for all,\u201d effectively confirming the link between both the EU DigitalID System and the Digital Euro.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/strategy\/priorities-2019-2024\/europe-fit-digital-age\/european-digital-identity_en\">European Digital Identity<\/a>, in development since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, integrates various aspects of personal identifiers including birth certificates, medical documents, bank accounts, tax returns, education status, and prescriptions. As The National Pulse has <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/04\/22\/a-social-credit-system-aimed-at-modifying-climate-change-behaviors-is-being-deployed-in-italy\/\">previously reported<\/a>, the goal for the EUiD is to act as the central authority for identification for both physical and digital world.<\/p>\n<p>Various consortiums and companies across Europe are already developing numerous projects as a second layer to the EU Digital ID system and expanding its capabilities. One company for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iproov.com\/\">iProov<\/a>, is focused on biometric authentication systems which patented important biometric ID tools used by various governments and corporates. The company specializes in deepfake threat detection, passwordless authentication, facial recognition, vaccine status verification, and more. iProov is also part of the NOBID consortium.<\/p>\n<p>With more services integrated on top of the EUiD, concerns are growing about threats to privacy and individual liberty. Given the developments that took place during COVID, people across Europe have experienced major violations of their personal freedoms \u2013 which were dictated by technocratic leadership on both national and supranational levels.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<p><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/app.memberful.com\/join\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">  <\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A consortium of six European nations is pushing for a new, digital, cross-border payment system which ultimately aims to combine the EU Digital Identification program with a digital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1335883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1335883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}