Why we shouldn’t trust digital ID

The government wants us to live in a condition of perpetual surveillance.

During a trip to Russia in 1785, the philosopher Jeremy Bentham sketched an outline for a new prison design. The cells were arranged around the circular perimeter and, at the centre, he placed his ‘panopticon’: a watchtower which afforded a view of any of the cells at all times. The prisoners might not always be being observed, but they could never be s…