{"id":11140,"date":"2026-04-06T13:51:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=11140"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:51:47","slug":"german-mep-christine-anderson-warns-of-dangers-of-digital-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=11140","title":{"rendered":"German MEP Christine Anderson Warns of Dangers of Digital ID"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>German MEP Christine Anderson is sounding a massive alarm: those &#8220;under-16 social media bans&#8221; aren&#8217;t about protecting kids, they are the gateway to a mandatory Digital ID for everyone. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"&#x1f6a8;\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t45\/1\/16\/1f6a8.png\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The EU wants to scan private messages sent from your phone,&#8221; Anderson warns. While officials claim it&#8217;s about stopping illegal content, she reveals the chilling reality, it means scanning everything you say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ultimate goal? Linking every single online move to a Digital ID. &#8220;That is called surveillance,&#8221; Anderson says. &#8220;And putting one&#8217;s own citizens under surveillance is the practice best known in totalitarian regimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are we trading our last shred of digital privacy for a false sense of security<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christine-Anderson-222.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christine-Anderson-222.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christine-Anderson-222.jpg 512w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christine-Anderson-222-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German MEP Christine Anderson is sounding a massive alarm: those &#8220;under-16 social media bans&#8221; aren&#8217;t about protecting kids, they are the gateway to a mandatory Digital ID for everyone. &#8220;The EU wants to scan private messages sent from your phone,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=11140\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4193,4288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11142,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140\/revisions\/11142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}