# eID and EU Digital Wallet: Warnings of Digital Surveillance - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120177114527756618 - Source account: [@quaeriteX](https://x.com/quaeriteX) - Source language: German - Target language: English - Duration: 2:41 - Published: 2026-11-10 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/de/kritik-an-eid-und-eu-wallet-warnung-vor-digitaler-%C3%BCberwachung.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance) The eID is the foundation of the digital gulag, of this technical, technocratic surveillance structure rushing toward us. [0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=7) In most countries, it's already here. Uh, Austria already has an eID rate of over fifty percent of the population. [0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=14) You can no longer, uh, receive agricultural subsidies as a farmer, uh, without an eID. [0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=20) You can no longer be a teacher either, because you can't—your classes, uh, exams, you can no longer upload them to the portal, etc. [0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=25) You can no longer be a civil servant and it's already like that in many other countries. [0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=29) Um, it's gradually becoming a requirement for a phone number, for a mobile phone contract, for a bank account and in Germany, they're already coming relatively— I think it's on January 2nd, then with this Citizen Wallet, to the extent it’s also often called that, or, uh, EU eID. [0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=45) Um, ours is naturally much more powerful right off the bat, because it also includes the electronic health record, the driver’s license, etc. [0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=53) So you immediately have a relatively large data set and you can assume that later on, the criminal record, the credit check, and your social media credit will run through it. [1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=63) In other words, are you well-behaved, or are you one of those troublemakers? [1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=67) Um, it’s the ultimate tool, and without eID nothing that’s coming our way will work. [1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=74) So if you were to reduce it—I’ve said this many times already— to a single sentence, uh, or if you wanted to boil it down to a single sentence And if you resist just one thing, it's the eID. [1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=84) Because the eID will enable their whole system and anyone without an eID, who doesn't use it and refuses it, won't be able to participate in this system, which will become very inconvenient, um, and will come with many sacrifices. [1:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=96) Corona was probably child's play in comparison. [1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=99) Um, but, uh, the eID is the end of free life. [1:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=104) You have to put it that dramatically. If you give this thing, setting aside today, three or four generations, uh, your phone will tell you when to go out, when to eat, how many kilometers you're allowed to drive in your car and how much money you have left available based on your behavior, um, from your universal basic income. [2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=120) It all sounds a little dystopian, and that's exactly what it is, Because it doesn't just destroy the future of the people who will use it now on January 2, it also destroys the future of those people's children and grandchildren, [2:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=131) because none of us will ever escape this digital gulag. [2:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=134) Once it's introduced, it'll be almost impossible to abolish it again, because it's so omnipotent and because, as Uli just described, you won't have anyone left to take legal action against. [2:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=145) Because there's no one to contact, there's no one to blame, and you can't sue an algorithm. [2:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=150) So that'll be difficult. So, if we can agree on one thing, uh, we have to stop the eID and not use it. [2:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/TY7uPvtFPgGl/en/eid-and-eu-digital-wallet-warnings-of-digital-surveillance?t=157) Torpedo it, sabotage it, whatever we can do, but no eID.