UK digital ID, AI, and the Donald Trump/Larry Ellison connection
Last week, the UK government announced plans to roll out a digital ID card system, an AI-based scheme that will allegedly make the country’s “borders more secure” and ensure that only legal residents can work. And if the reasoning behind the rollout of digital ID sounds familiar, it’s because Donald Trump, with help from Big Tech bro Larry Ellison, wants to do the same thing in America for the same reasons.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has confirmed that digital ID cards will be mandatory for every citizen in UK before they can hold a job or rent a home. Eventually, the scheme will give government control of pretty much every aspect of daily life (via Times Now News):
The digital ID will include residency status, name, date of birth, nationality, and a photograph. Employers and landlords will be required to verify the ID before hiring or renting to someone, replacing paper-based checks like National Insurance numbers.
The UK has tried to introduce ID cards before. Tony Blair’s Labour government proposed voluntary cards in the early 2000s, but the scheme was scrapped in 2011 by the Conservative-led coalition, citing cost and intrusion concerns. Mandatory ID cards were last used during and after World War II, with the system ending in 1952.
Ministers say the digital ID will eventually simplify access to services such as driving licenses, childcare, welfare, and tax records, while making government processes more efficient and reducing fraud. (Emphasis mine)
Though Blair’s earlier attempt at ID cards never came to pass, he made a major push a few years ago for a digital ID to ensure that people were complying with COVID mandates, and it was just a few months ago that the former prime minister decided that people were willing to surrender their liberty in favor of a digital ID system run by AI.
Tony Blair’s push for an AI-run digital ID system took political cronyism to a new level when it was recently revealed that he lobbied one of the billionaire backers to his Institute for Global Change to be a major player in the UK digital ID scheme. The name of that backer? None other than Donald Trump confidant and founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison. Thanks to his status as a big-money donor to Tony Blair, Ellison and Oracle stand to profit from the UK plan to force millions of adults to sign up for a digital ID card — making millions on top of millions of pounds in the process ((via Daily Mail).
Tech experts believe Oracle, a giant database and software firm co-founded by Ellison in 1977, could gain commercially from the introduction of the scheme.
It is understood the ID cards will rely on a huge ‘Right to Work’ database that is estimated to cost between £150m to £400m.
Oracle already has a series of major NHS technology contracts and provides so-called cloud competing services for the Home Office, Department of Work and Pensions, Ministry of Justice and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in a deal worth up to £1bn.
Technology writer Andrew Orlowski said: ‘The Government’s digital identity system creates lucrative new opportunities for Oracle, a database company.
It has already hoovered up major government IT contracts in recent years and will be in pole position to land future work linked to ID cards. (Emphasis mine)
The “Stargate Project” is being hailed by Donald Trump as the cornerstone of his “Golden Age of America” but the reality is, as Tony Blair recently revealed, it will make government control via digital IDs a reality.
Digital ID is already in the works as part of Trump’s border security and illegal immigration agenda; key to his agenda is Stargate AI, considered by many to be the source of government power so massive that it will completely destroy liberty and humanity. One of the players in the Donald Trump digital ID scheme is none other than Larry Ellison.
In an Oracle company financial meeting a year ago, Ellison shared his vision for an AI-powered surveillance future, a future where artificial intelligence systems would constantly monitor citizens through an extensive network of cameras and drones, stating this would ensure both police and citizens don’t break the law.
Ellison also shared a scenario where AI could be used to analyze footage from security cameras, police body cams, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dash cams before declaring that “citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.” Ellison also believes that Stargate AI will also prevent future pandemics.
The AI information gathered by the Stargate Project will make building a social credit system as good as done — especially when you add digital currency to the mix. Digital currency will put every single cent of our money under full government control to be spent (or not spent) as the Republican/Democrat duopoly sees fit. On a practical level, this means that a digital dollar can, for example, be crafted to restrict fossil-fuel use or be programed to enact de facto price controls by preventing users from spending more money than government thinks they should on particular products.
One example of how this works comes to us courtesy of China’s CBDC (Digital Yuan), a digital currency tied to the country’s vaccine passport and social credit systems. Experts in the tech industry tell us that the digital platform used to create vaccine passports and digital IDs is the same platform used in the country’s “social credit system.” Some of the areas tracked in real time by China’s “social credit system” are (via New Horizons):
- Medical history
- Social media posts and internet search history
- Bank accounts and credit cards
- Residence, employment, and criminal history
- Relationships and religious activities
- Political activity
This information is fed to a central database in real time to create a “social credit score” used to reward or punish citizens. Those with a high score are able to participate freely in society while those with a low score are prohibited from traveling, borrowing money, keeping a job, or even getting their children into school. China doesn’t only track their citizens, it controls them — the ultimate goal of digital ID.
Just as he is a beneficiary of government handouts in the UK, Larry Ellison enjoys numerous government handouts in the US courtesy of Donald Trump. For example, Trump just announced a deal that will save TikTok and move its base of operations to the US . . . and I bet you’ll never guess who Dear Leader is putting in charge (via United Press International):
The social media platform TikTok soon will be U.S.-based, according to a purported preliminary deal to keep the popular app operating for American users.
A joint venture with software giant Oracle will keep the video app’s operations in the United States, with a majority control of it board of directors being Americans, a senior administration official confirmed to CNBC, CNN and USA Today.
According to the White House, no board member will be selected by the federal government and U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to ink an executive order this week that backs the proposal in yet another extension.
On Saturday, the White House initially revealed that TikTok’s U.S. operations will be controlled by a U.S. entity in a planned deal to spin off the wildly popular social media platform from its Chinese owners.
AI conglomerate Oracle will manage TikTok’s algorithm and security operations, the official added. (Emphasis mine)
Tony Blair believes that a digital ID and an AI-controlled government surveillance state is a price the public is willing to pay in exchange for safety — so does Donald Trump — and with the help of Larry Ellison, they are coming very close to seeing it come to pass in both the UK and the US.
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