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Texas Is Sued Over Digital ID Age Verification Bill

A major technology association is suing the State of Texas over a new law that threatens both privacy and free expression.

The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Senate Bill 2420, which is set to take effect on January 1, 2026.

We obtained a copy of the lawsuit for you here.

The group argues that the law forces both app stores and developers to impose invasive ID age checks, obtain parental consent, and label content in state-approved ways that violate the First Amendment.

Under SB 2420, anyone with an app store account would need to complete an age-verification process before downloading or updating applications.

If an app store determines that a user is under 18, that user would be blocked from downloading most apps or making in-app purchases unless a parent gives consent and assumes control of the account.

Minors who cannot link their profiles to a parent or guardian would lose access to app store content entirely.

App developers would also face new rules.

They must classify their apps into multiple age categories and provide written explanations for each rating. Every update, feature addition, or design change would require written notice to the app store.

CCIA says these mandates compel developers to describe their products in ways dictated by the state and pressure companies to collect personal data that users should not have to disclose.

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UN, Gates Foundation push for digital ID across 50 nations by 2028

The 50-in-5 campaign to accelerate digital ID, fast payment systems, and data exchanges in 50 countries by 2028 reaches a 30 country milestone.

Launched in November 2023, the 50-in-5 campaign is a joint effort of the United Nations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and their partners to rollout out at least one component of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) in 50 nations within five years.

DPI is a civic technology stack consisting of three major components: digital ID, fast payment systems, and massive data sharing between public and private entities.

50-in-5 started with 11 first-mover countries, and with the count now at 30 the participating countries include:

Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Guatemala, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Moldova, Nigeria, Norway, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Africa, South Sudan, Somalia, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, and Zambia.

The 50-in-5 campaign celebrated its 30-country milestone during a sideline event at the U.N. General Assembly in New York on September 22.

There, government officials, like Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, praised the work of 50-in-5 while the ministers of digital economy from Nigeria and Togo called for an interoperable digital identity system for the entire African continent.

Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy Bosun Tijani said that each country could build their own digital identity scheme, but that they should all be interoperable with one another – demonstrating both the digital ID and data sharing as good potential use cases for DPI.

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Labour’s digital ID card ‘may let people choose their own gender’, MPs are warned

Labour’s controversial digital identification scheme could see gender self-ID introduced by the back door, MPs have been warned.

Experts and women’s rights groups are concerned that the digital cards could allow people to pick their preferred gender instead of recording birth sex – despite Labour’s pledge not to introduce self-ID.

Elderly female NHS patients could be bathed by a biological man with a female ID and sex offenders who change gender after being convicted could use the scheme to mask their identity, they warn.

Professor Alice Sullivan – who carried out a Government-commissioned review of data on sex and gender –called on the Government to commit to using accurate data on biological sex. 

Professor Sullivan, head of research at the University College London Social Research Institute, told the Daily Mail: ‘If data is going to be recorded on an individual it needs to be accurate and data on sex should reflect the person’s actual sex.

‘If it doesn’t, it shouldn’t be recorded at all. That should just be an absolutely basic principle. 

‘The concern is that if data from systems that are not recording accurate data on sex are feeding into this then it will be inaccurate in turn. And so we would need a commitment for that not to be the case.

‘The Government either needs to say this isn’t meant to record people’s sex at all, or they need to ensure it’s only coming from accurate sources.’ 

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UK Digital ID: The BritCard Bait and Switch

In my previous article I suggested that the UK’s proposed “mandatory” digital ID, called the BritCard, was a bait and switch psyop. I posited that the arguments presented by Keir Starmer’s purported Labour government, to supposedly justify the BritCard rollout, coupled with the timing of the announcement, the apparent inability to understand public opinion, and the lack of necessity for the BritCard, indicated that there was something amiss with the so-called government’s BritCard proposition.

It seems to me that the purpose of the BritCard gambit is to frame the Overton Window for the public debate about digital ID in the UK. People can accept or reject it, imagining the BritCard represents the totality of digital ID infrastructure. If the population rejects the BritCard they may well do so under the misapprehension they have defeated digital ID in the UK.

Subsequent developments have strengthened my view.

Digital ID is a global policy initiative that governments around the world, including the British government, are following, not leading. It is the United Nation’s (UN’s) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16.9 which promises to “by 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.”

Even before the ink was officially dry on SDG 16.9, the ID2020 group, tasked with meeting the “identity” sustainability target, outlined what achieving SDG 16.9 would mean in practical terms:

[C]reate technology-driven public-private partnerships to achieve the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of providing legal identity for everyone on the planet.

ID2020 further clarified the global policy objective:

By 2030, enabling access to digital identity for every person on the planet.

The objective of SDG 16.9 is to force not just approved “legal identity” but digital ID on every human being on earth. To this end, the UN has already created a nascent global digital ID database called ID4D. The ID4D Global Dataset aim to capture the data of “all people aged 0 and above.”

Run by the World Bank Group—a UN specialised agency—ID4D informs us:

The World Bank Group’s Identification for Development (ID4D) Initiative harnesses global and cross-sectoral knowledge, World Bank financing instruments, and partnerships to help countries realize the transformational potential of identification (ID) systems. [. . .] The aim is to enable all people to exercise their rights and access better services and economic opportunities in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.

At first reading this might not seem so bad. Therefore, it is very important to be clear about what it implies.

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Digital ID Rolled Out by Countries Everywhere at the Same Time: But Wasn’t It Just a Conspiracy?

In the past three months, governments from Switzerland to Papua New Guinea advanced digital ID policy and introduction at speed. The details differ slightly from country to country, but the messaging and sequencing are strikingly familiar. Initially, it looked like each country was acting independent of one another, but the sheer momentum and coincidental timing beg deeper questions about global coordination. Frameworks have existed in the background for years, and vendors have built to the blueprints. The result is a wide-reaching rollout choreographed from above, even if officials in each country insist otherwise. What was once dismissed as a fringe conspiracy theory is revealing itself before our very eyes. 

Coincidence or Choreography?

Switzerland approved a state e-ID in a referendum on 28 September, reversing a 2021 vote against its introduction. The European Union will capture biometrics of non-EU travellers via its new Entry/Exit System starting this month. Vietnam will use its VNeID platform, equipped with facial verification, for all domestic air travel. Costa Rica launched a mobile national ID in September. Papua New Guinea’s cabinet backed a policy that ties social media access to ServisPass, its new national ID. The United Kingdom set out a path for digital ID requirements in the name of right-to-work checks, igniting petitions and protests. Laos just ordered agencies to integrate its new national ID. Mexico finalised a biometric overhaul of the CURP (unique national ID number) ready for 2026. Ethiopia’s own version, Fayda, is being scaled up nationwide. And Zambia is beginning procurement and cooperation talks to build its own system. 

In each of these countries, people think it’s a government-specific requirement. But for this many countries, touching all corners of the earth, to adopt the technology in a matter of months? There’s a common destination in mind here, and an uncomfortable realisation that this has been in the planning stages for years. 

The Digital ID Playbook Was Written Years Ago

While speculations about digital identification was sidelined as conspiracy, the World Economic Forum have been publishing frameworks and travel credential concepts. Identity in a Digital World (2018), A Blueprint for Digital Identity (2016), and the Known Traveller Digital Identity (2020) sketched governance models, outlined technical stacks, and pushed cross-border use cases. Industries were reading along, and aligned as a result. So, by the time national politics opened the door, the design work was already done. 

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Tokenization: United Nations Publishes New Framework For Digital IDs While The World Moves In Lockstep As A Means To Enforce Social Credit Scores

The global control grid is rapidly being built, and it appears the globalist institutions are moving things into high-gear.

In the last report I wrote for Revive The Table,1 we discussed how the Trump administration and the United States is moving quickly towards implementing a digital ID system, one that would consolidate all of your legal, biometric, and historical data into one. Such a system would then tie into the new global financial system via a process called tokenization; which refers to digitally representing assets via distributed ledger technology (DLT) on blockchain oracles.

As a refresher – a “token,” as defined2 by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – nicknamed the “central bank of central banks” – “are entries in a database that are recorded digitally and that can contain information and functionality within the token themselves. Digital tokens can represent financial or real assets.” These assets can be virtually anything: stocks, bonds, real estate, commodities such as food or oil, things priced/measured in carbon, precious metals, “money” (so-called); and even the individual themselves becomes a token via digital ID. A token collects information3 about that underlying digital currency or asset: ownership, dates of purchase/sale, transaction dates, permissions and rights, and so forth. And, as we examined in our last report, citing an official White House document4 published in July about the future financial system, it’s not just the Trump administration building this, but the whole world is racing towards it in accordance with these globalist playbooks.

Like clockwork, roughly a week after the last edition of Revive The Table was sent out, the United Nations held its 80th General Assembly meeting; and one of the big talking points was a further expansion of digital ID. Digital ID is something the UN and other groups such as the World Economic Forum, for example, have been very adamant about implementing for years.

Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is absolutely emphatic about digital ID, so much so that he and his institution call it the “great enabler.”5

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The country that inspired Keir Starmer’s digital ID card fiasco: Labour’s blueprint for Britain is a ‘goldmine for hackers and scammers to steal your money’

Estonia’s digital identity system has been beset by blunders and security issues that  allow hackers to steal data and help scammers take money, we can reveal.

The digital ID system used by 1.4million people in the Baltic state country is said to be the blueprint for Keir Starmer‘s so-called Brit Card. 

Digital ID cards showing a resident’s picture, name, unique number and date of birth, and including a microchip storing more personal information, have been used in the former Soviet republic for more than 20 years.

Estonians can hold their cards in e-wallets on mobile phones and use them to vote, check on bank accounts, e-sign contracts and invoices, file tax returns, claim benefits, book medical appointments, access health records, shop online, and even collect supermarket loyalty points.

But the much-praised scheme in Estonia has suffered security lapses that have allowed fraudsters to bypass encryption systems to con victims out of their savings and leak the names and photographs of citizens.

The Daily Mail can reveal that users have also repeatedly fallen victim to phishing emails and calls from scammers who have persuaded them to disclose PIN numbers for their cards and stolen cash from their bank accounts in a grim warning of what could happen in the UK.

Official figures reveal that citizens of so-called ‘E-Stonia’ lost more than 7million euros to fraud last year with 837 ‘significant’ incidents recorded, up from 546 in 2023, although the true figure is thought to be much higher due to many cases being unreported.

Reports suggest that the amount lost to fraud in Estonia has soared since last year with a total of 7.5million euros lost in the first six months this year.

A large number of the cases reported by Estonia’s Police and Border Guard are thought to involve personal information from ID cards being stolen due to people being tricked into revealing PIN codes.

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UK Government Dismisses Public Outcry, Pushes Ahead with Controversial Digital ID Plan

A UK government plan to introduce a nationwide digital identification system is moving ahead, despite a public backlash that saw more than 2.7 million people sign a petition urging its cancellation.

The proposal, first announced by Labour in September, would provide a digital ID to every UK citizen and legal resident aged 16 and above.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer claimed the new system would help strengthen border enforcement and reduce illegal employment, describing the ID, dubbed the “Brit Card,” as a tool to “make it tougher to work illegally in this country, making our borders more secure.”

The public response was overwhelmingly opposed. Warnings about centralized data collection, privacy intrusions, and increased state surveillance flooded public discourse.

Descriptions of the proposal ranged from a “dystopian nightmare” to fears of a gateway to “digital control.”

Not long after Labour’s announcement, a petition was created on the official UK Government and Petitions website.

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Swiss Voters Adopt Digital-ID Scheme

In a nationwide referendum on Sunday, Swiss voters narrowly adopted a digital-ID proposal put forth by the nation’s federal government.

The proposal, formally titled the “Federal Act on Electronic Proof of Identity and Other Electronic Evidence (E-ID Act, BGEID),” passed with 50.39 percent of the popular vote. Notably, a majority of cantons (the Swiss equivalent to states in the United States) voted against the proposal (15.5 against, versus 7.5 in favor, including half cantons). Since the referendum did not involve a constitutional amendment, however, the proposal did not require a majority of cantons to pass.

The now-approved measure creates a government-managed digital-identification system. Under its provisions, users’ data will be stored on their smartphones and used only for identity verification (as opposed to broader purposes), and requires only the minimum information to be revealed to a third party (e.g., when purchasing alcohol at a store). The digital ID is optional; Swiss citizens may continue to use the county’s existing national ID card.

Second Attempt

Sunday’s referendum was the federal government’s second attempt at implementing a digital-ID system. Voters rejected a previous proposal in March 2021, with 64.4 percent voting against it, mainly due to concerns about users’ data falling in the hands of private companies, which would have managed the originally proposed program.

Although the Swiss Federal Assembly (parliament) modified its second proposal to address those concerns, any digital ID poses a fundamental threat to individual freedom and privacy, and would massively increase government’s ability to track citizens’ every movement. Furthermore, digital IDs are part of the United Nations’ totalitarian Agenda 2030 plan to impose central planning on a global scale, and the UN and Bill Gates are working to implement a “digital public infrastructure.”

Additionally, conservative groups opposed to the measure argued that a digital ID would eventually become mandatory, and that any system still risked handing over citizens’ data to large companies and being used for purposes beyond simple identity verification.

Unexpected Opposition

Despite the measure passing, Sunday’s referendum result was significantly narrower than expected. The proposal passed the Federal Assembly by wide margins — 170-25 in the National Council (lower house) and 43-1 in the Council of States (upper house) — with only members of the conservative Swiss People’s Party and two minor affiliated parties objecting.

Although opponents gathered enough signatures to force a referendum on the legislation, polling suggested that nearly three-fifths of voters would support it. Ultimately, the measure barely passed, and was rejected by majorities in most cantons.

Swiss media and analysts saw the narrow passage as resulting from high turnout by conservative opponents of the measure. Swiss public broadcaster Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen analyzed that the result “should give the Federal Council and the parliamentary majority pause for thought,” and “is not a good sign for other digitization projects in Switzerland.”

Dangers of Democracy

Sunday’s referendum illustrates the dangers of democracy, specifically of the majority imposing its will on the minority, even if it infringes on the latter’s individual freedom. Although opposition to a digital ID was widespread — voters in a majority of cantons opposed the concept — this potentially far-reaching policy became law with only a 50.4-percent popular majority.

Switzerland, whose current system incorporates direct democracy, holds nationwide referendums up to four times a year. Despite now being accepted as foundational to the Swiss political system, nationwide referendums were virtually nonexistent before the 1870s, more than 20 years after Switzerland became a federal state. Notably, once Switzerland adopted federal direct democracy, it quickly inspired multiple U.S. states to do the same in the form of “citizens’ initiatives.”

The U.S. Founding Fathers recognized the dangers of democracy, and instead created the U.S. federal government as a constitutional republic. For example, James Madison wrote in The Federalist, No. 10, “Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”

The word “democracy” is nowhere to be found in the Declaration of Independence or Constitution — and this is intentional. In contrast, Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution requires each state to have “a Republican Form of Government.”

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UK Pub Transformed Into 1984 Theme Park In Protest Of Starmer’s Digital ID Dystopia

A landlord in the UK has renamed his pub ‘The George Orwell’ and made it entirely 1984 themed, complete with projections of the dystopian novel’s most memorable themes and phrases along with images of Prime Minister Kier Starmer as the evil Big Brother.

As we have highlighted, Starmer recently announced Chinese communist-style digital tracking is coming to the UK with a new mandatory “right to work” scheme in the form of a universal ID called the “Brit Card”.

It’s all predicated on the back of out of control mass illegal immigration, with the leftists using the crisis created by the previous Conservative government and amplified by Starmer’s cabal in an attempt to rollout Orwellian style surveillance and control.

While they claim the scheme will help to stop “illegal” immigrants from crossing the channel by denying them access to work, the possibilities for control via biometric tracking are endless.

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