I've noticed this sort of... "Trend" a lot, here, in the last few years, with "digital integration" and mandatory smart phone use for everything from my University, to banking, to (for a year and a half) Covid "check in" apps...

It's actually caused me a great deal of trouble, that whole... "You must have an up to date smartphone, and carry it on your person at all times" thing... Like, you can't imagine how many problems that has created.

Now we have governments discussing a permanent digital "vaccine passport", in addition to stuff like in this article. I honestly think we are headed for disaster (even ignoring the dystopian nature of all this, the recent Medibank and Optus hacks surely show that this sort of "integration" is a terrible idea), which governments will justify with arguments of "safety" and "convenience", and the population, as is very apparent by now, will just lap up and more than willingly take up...

Just look at the sheer numbers of people who do everything on their smartphones, from paying "by card" to "tapping on" to public transport to carrying "digital ID"...

Some day soon this house of cards is going to implode. Or maybe not. Maybe we will just march headlong into this full digital dystopian surveillance state, and only then realise the consequences of doing so. That's certainly what the media would like to see happen.

It was certainly revealing the day that I realised I was the only person in my class (at Uni) who could see that this stuff could be "problematic". Most of my classmates were a few years younger than me, but hell, never had I felt so alone, ideologically, as I did that day, lol...