My sense is that 2026 will bring a sharp escalation in attempts to monitor, restrict, and condition our privacy, freedoms, and access to money. Digital IDs, CBDCs, and tighter internet controls all seem to be converging at once. This feels coordinated rather than accidental.

If this sounds exaggerated, look at 2024 and 2025. Digital Naira and Digital Yuan rollouts. Digital ID pushes in the UK and EU. The UK Online Safety Act now active. Australia moving to block social media for under 16s. These are not isolated experiments. They are signals.

I worry we will see more arrests, more pressure, and possibly real harm as people resist. That is not something I say lightly.

Still, 2026 has to become a year of pushback and alignment. Education, decentralised tools, parallel systems, and community matter more than ever. Hope will not come from governments. It will come from people choosing sovereignty together.

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