Manifesto CoreTechnology, AI and Human-Scale Life
Cash and Non-Digital Access
Citizens should retain meaningful access to physical money and to face-to-face public services.
Policy catalogueTechnology, AI and Human-Scale Life
DerivedDigital Identification
Digital identification may exist as an optional convenience, but ordinary civic participation must not require compulsory digital-only identity.
Position
Citizens should retain meaningful non-digital access and should not be forced into a universal identity architecture capable of routine behavioural surveillance.
Policy
- Keep physical identification available wherever reasonably practicable.
- Do not deny essential public services merely because a person refuses a smartphone or digital-ID application.
- Collect only data necessary for the stated administrative purpose.
- Separate identity systems from general behavioural-surveillance systems.
- Require clear legal authority and auditability for access to identity data.
- Prohibit social-credit systems and political or religious behavioural scoring.
- Avoid automatically linking medical, financial, educational, travel and communications records into one universal state profile.
Implementation note
Implementation note
The manifesto explicitly protects non-digital identification where practicable and rejects unlimited technological dependence.
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Surveillance
Citizens should retain meaningful private spaces free from permanent surveillance, with the detailed rules not yet settled.
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Central Bank Digital Currencies
A CBDC must not replace physical cash or become a compulsory, programmable system of transaction surveillance.
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Technology: General Doctrine
Technological development is not synonymous with human progress, and should be judged by its effects on autonomy, family, community and work.
Every question in this catalogue carries a position. Entries marked Derived follow the direction of the manifesto without their implementation being fixed, and several name the legal or treaty change they would require. Positions are revised as the movement decides; the version and date above say which text you are reading.