• November 17, 2021Download PDF

• U.S. states are increasingly rolling out digitized versions of driver’s licenses that “go way beyond what a driver’s license is about”
• An international standard for mobile drivers’ licenses and mobile IDs was approved for publication August 18, 2021, clearing the way for global use
• Mobile IDs will act as a digital identity that will ultimately tie in to retail, health care, law enforcement and travel sectors
• Ultimately, the IDs will also act as vaccine passports, making it easy to display whether you’ve gotten a COVID-19 injection — and any other future injections that come about — in order to go about your daily life
• Some have speculated that the introduction of digital IDs and vaccine passports in the U.S. is laying the infrastructure for a social credit system like the one being used in China

This is no merely plausible conjecture:

Everyone in Minnesota over the last two years was surprised to learn that, upon renewing their drivers license, they had two options:

The old traditional license was still available, but we were advised that if we took that option, we would no longer be able to use it after the end of 2019 as a valid ID to board a plane or various other common uses.

We had to pay more money, and bring more docuмentation to renew.  We were only told this upon arrival at the DMV, so if you didn’t choose the new updated version, you probably had to go home and return a second time:

They were fatiguing us into getting the new one. 

I was suspicious, and opted for the old one.  Now I see that suspicion was well founded (though at the time, COVID19 hadn’t quite yet been unleashed on us).

Here’s the official explanation from the Ministry of Truth:

https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/dvs/real-id/Pages/real-id-faq.aspx