Why You Should Be Worried About Digital ID - Silkie Carlo

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Silkie Carlo is Director of Big Brother Watch, a UK civil liberties group, and a leading campaigner on privacy, surveillance, and digital rights. | Hypnozio: Expert hypnotherapy https://sponsr.is/hypnozio_Triggernometry Triggernometry is proudly independent. Thanks to the sponsors below for making that possible: - SHEATH: go to https://Sheath.com. Use code TRIGGERNOMETRY for 20% off. - Go to https://sponsr.is/hypnozio_Triggernometry and use our code TRIGGER15 to grab 15% off your first subscription with Hypnozio - Protect your wealth with The Pure Gold Company. Get your free investor guide at https://pure-gold.co/trigger Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Substack! https://triggernometry.substack.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Shop Merch here - https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - What Are Digital IDs And What Are The Concerns? 06:53 - Has Covid Made People More Wary Of Digital ID? 15:55 - This Is A Great Way To Shape People's Behaviour 20:19 - They're Blatantly Lying To Us 27:57 - This Isn't A Left/Right Issue 38:38 - China Rolling Back Data Harvesting Due To National Security Risks 43:05 - Digital ID Will Be Keir Starmer's 'Poll Tax' 49:31 - Nobody Says "It's A Free Country" Anymore 53:57 - The Canadian Truckers Having Their Bank Accounts Frozen 56:53 - What's The One Thing We're Not Talking About That We Really Should Be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are that close to a situation where you basically need a digital ID to go online.
0:07.0	The right to work is the first one, then the right to rent, banking, education, childcare, voting.
0:15.2	Five billion was wasted last time this country tried to introduce digital IDs.
0:19.9	That's about 50 times the amount of the
0:21.8	border security command. Very, very clearly, this isn't about immigration. The Starma government
0:27.6	has just introduced mass bank spying powers on the premise of rooting out welfare fraud. The home office
0:33.6	right now is supporting essentially an expansion of live facial recognition across multiple
0:38.9	police forces. The time to really put up a fight is now.
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1:06.0	In today's fast-changing digital world, proving your company's trustworthy isn't just important
1:11.7	for growth.
1:12.8	It's essential.
1:13.8	That's why Vanta is here.
1:15.6	Vanta helps companies of all sizes get compliant, fast, and stay that way with their
1:20.7	proprietary AI automation and continuous monitoring.
1:23.9	So whether you're a startup tackling your first SOC 2 or ISO-2-2-1 or an enterprise
1:30.7	managing vendor risk, Vanta's trust management platform makes it quicker, easier and more scalable.
1:37.1	It even helps you complete security questionnaires up to five times faster, so you can close
1:42.1	bigger deals sooner. And the impact?
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