Digital ID 3 million signatures

Our Take

Whatever you think of the host's broader worldview, the underlying data point here is real and worth sitting with: millions of ordinary people signing a petition against mandatory digital ID is a signal, not noise. Credit to the Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency channel for keeping a spotlight on a topic mainstream outlets routinely bury. People are not paranoid for worrying that a single digital credential tied to banking, travel, and government services becomes the backbone for tracking everything else you do.

That's exactly why we focus on license plate readers. Flock Safety cameras don't need a national ID scheme to build a profile of your movements — they're already doing it, repo lot by repo lot, intersection by intersection, with almost no public oversight and data quietly shared across agencies and states. Digital ID, facial recognition, and ALPR networks are different wires in the same cage: each one alone seems manageable, but stitched together they produce a surveillance grid that knows where you went, when, and often why.

A petition can slow a bill, but it won't take down a camera already bolted to a pole in your town. If you want to see how dense that network already is near you, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally — public records requests, city council meetings, vendor contract fights — our take-action page has the playbook.