Vlaardingerbroek has experienced them firsthand, being from the Netherlands. All of Europe, she reminded the audience, was mandated to carry digital vaccine passports during the Covid era. They were in the form of a QR code that would appear on mobile phones within a government app and were required to go any place outside of the home.
These IDs, she explained, would expire if one did not stay up to date with boosters.
"We needed to show a digital QR code to other citizens because suddenly everybody was allowed to check your identity and to scan your medical records in order to get into bars, restaurants, museums, anything," she said. "So just to partake in everyday life, you have to show this digital QR code. And that digital QR code is exactly what they're now going to make a digital identity like a digital passport for just about every service that you can get in the European Union."
Posobiec then asked Vlaardinegrbroek what the impetus for digital IDs would be now that the hysteria surrounding Covid is all but obsolete.
"Convenience," she answered. "The way to a modern person's heart."
"We never needed this," she continued, "but now they're telling us, 'hey, this is going to make your life so much easier' because if you want to rent a car somewhere in Europe, all you have to do is show them your digital QR code. They scan it, and they have all of your data ... you don't have to have your papers on you."
They both agreed that the next step, even further, would be facial recognition much like what has been implemented in China at vending machines and checkout counters.
"I can just look at it," Posobiec explained, and then it immediately connects my face with my bank account, or your credit card. So all of this will be integrated in your bank account, your credit card, and of course, your credit card linked directly to what? Oh, your credit score."
The European Commissioner, in fact, has referred to a similar concept as a "digital wallet."
"So digital wallet, digital identity, Central Bank, digital currencies, all of it is right around the corner," Vlaardingerbroek stated.
The development of the digital euro, she reported, is being done by none other than Jeff Bezos at Amazon.
"It's not about convenience. It's so that every single time that you do something or say something that the government doesn't like, they can ruin your life, you know, screen goes red, it's like, 'you have the wrong opinions, Jack. Sorry, no cheeseburger for you.'"
Posobiec illustrated: "You said something bad on the X platform, you misgendered somebody, you did a hate speech, and now all of a sudden, your Amazon refrigerator won't open."
"All of these smart devices that they sell to you to make your life easier," Vlaardingerbroek stated, "they're all meant to control you, they're all meant to to keep track of your every single move."
The danger of these as Posobiec pointed out, is that they are actually convenient. He implored his audience to be alert to "the potential threats of these technologies."
