Modern society is drifting toward a form of...

Editor's note: ...technocratic control that poses a direct threat to individual freedom. It describes the emergence of a "technocratic dark state," (a "sheep farm") where power is increasingly concentrated in a network of unelected elites, particularly technology leaders (NEONERDS), corporations, and aligned political stooges who know virtually nothing about what is transpiring, who seek to reorganize society through data, automation, and centralized systems. At the core of this system is the push for digital identity frameworks and unified financial ledgers, which would allow transactions, behavior, and access to services to be monitored and controlled within a single, interoperable structure. This risks eliminating anonymity and financial independence, making participation in society conditional on compliance.

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UK Gov't launches Digital ID "consultation"

March 11, 2026 | By Kit Knightly

Yesterday, Keir Starmer's Government officially launched their "consultation" on Digital ID.

The language in the press release is hilariously partisan…

Government launches consultation on making public services quicker, easier and more secure to access with digital ID

The government wants to know if you're in favour Digital ID making public services quicker easer and more secure? Or would you like them to stay slow, difficult and unsafe?

For those unversed in the vernacular of British politics, a "Consultation" occurs after the government has decided to do something, but before they’ve actually done it.

After the "consultation" comes the "panel":

'People's Panel for Digital ID' – an in-depth deliberative engagement process with a broadly UK representative sample of 100-120 individuals to discuss the policy in detail.

…which is a 120-person focus group of totally real people selected at random. Honest.

The supposed aim of this long and drawn-out process is to get vital feedback about the thing that’s definitely going to happen, and therefore be able to best benefit the public when it happens.

The real aim is an extended PR tour creating a façade of conversation and compromise prior to the roll-out of the entirely unchanged plan.

The technology is all built, the app designed, the services locked in. What they’re waiting for is the brief process of normalisation to elapse so that not too many people protest.

And protest we should, because a cursory reading of the full consultation is alarming.

There's a part about facial recognition technology, for example:

…there is a legal basis for police use of facial recognition, which may include access to biometric data held by government. The government recognises that the current legal framework is complicated, and has launched a consultation (which concluded in February 2026) on reviewing the legal framework for using facial recognition in law enforcement. That consultation proposes a new legal framework that will create consistent, durable rules and appropriate safeguards for facial recognition and similar technologies which are likely to follow it in relation to biometric data held by government in the future. The national digital ID will be subject to any new legal framework introduced.

A word salad which roughly translates to:

"We're going to put everyone with a digital ID into a police database for facial recognition technology."

But the good news is that you don’t have to pay to be put on a facial recognition database, the UK Digital ID will be free:

We expect there to be no direct costs to households from the introduction of the digital ID system, as households will not be charged any fees to create, access or use their digital ID.

How this will work with passports and drivers' licences – both of which you do have to pay to receive – will be interesting. But making one free and one expensive is a very efficient method of blurring the line between non-compulsory and mandatory.

As the old saying goes, "if you’re not paying for the product, you ARE the product."

So, how do you feel about this idea? Would you like to be part of the consultation?

Because, if you want to leave some feedback…there's a survey. Have at it.

Please go to Off-Guardian to continue reading.

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Editor's note: A major threat to freedom identified in the material below is the replacement of democratic governance with technocratic management (a "sheep farm"). Instead of citizens influencing policy through representation, decision-making would increasingly be handled by algorithmic systems, corporate-state partnerships, and "stakeholder" networks that blur the line between public and private power. This shift is framed as more "efficient," but it removes accountability and erodes the principle of consent. In this model, democracy is viewed as an obstacle to be bypassed, not preserved, with some ideological strands even advocating for corporate-style governance structures, sometimes described as "gov-corp", where states are run like businesses rather than accountable institutions.

There is a deeper philosophical threat: the belief that technology should override human values and political processes. Technocracy, as described, treats society as a system to be engineered, with people reduced to components within a "social mechanism." This mindset prioritizes efficiency, optimization, and control over individual rights, dignity, and moral considerations. In such a system, human behavior becomes something to be managed and predicted, often through surveillance, AI, and behavioral data collection, raising the risk of pervasive social control and loss of personal autonomy and agency.

These developments are being advanced without meaningful public awareness or consent, often under the guise of solving crises such as economic instability, climate change, or security threats. By presenting technological control systems as "necessary solutions," the transition toward centralized authority becomes normalized and difficult to resist. The cumulative effect is the gradual construction of a global system that could amount to a form of digital authoritarianism, one that operates not through overt coercion, but through infrastructure, dependency, and invisible control mechanisms that reshape freedom itself.

The Technocratic Dark State Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship can also be viewed at: Solari Report:

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