I don’t know much about this, as it hasn’t been written about much at all, but from what I have been able to learn about it, it sounds fairly alarming. From the its website, the ID2020 Alliance is:
“a public-private partnership maximizing the potential of digital ID to improve lives.”
As many have pointed out, the term “public-private partnership” is a public relations euphemism to describe the age-old phenomenon of powerful corporations using the government as a tool to fleece the public. It’s been known by many names: corporatism, mercantilism, fascism, and others. The result is the same. “Public-private partnership” is a nice way of saying that government is allowing itself to be bought by industry.
Now, what organizations does this “alliance” consist of? Microsoft, The Rockefeller Foundation, GAVI Vaccine Alliance, Accenture, and IDEO, an “international design and consulting firm”. These players should of course raise eyebrows, as any alliance between them isn’t going to produce anything of value for the public.
These organizations have a habit of hiding behind a philanthropic facade, and in this instance their ostensible goal is to create some type of “secure digital identity”, but what is the real goal here? What it appears to be, on the surface, is to create a system of perfect, absolute surveillance, which the “alliance” will use to their advantage. Browsing around on the website itself, what can only be described as a cartel of powerful organizations is selling this ID as “privacy-protecting”, and it appears that they will soon beta test it on 35,000 residents of Thailand. From the website:
“Through their digital identities, participants will be able to not only access improved healthcare services but also securely store educational and professional credentials.”
So the most important personal information will be stored on these IDs in a database. How anyone would believe that this would protect privacy is beyond me, but these organizations do have a habit of testing out all their technocratic delusions on the vulnerable citizens of the Third World.
GAVI, another public-private alliance, peddles vaccines to the Third World, so this ID will certainly be linked up with the ID-holder’s vaccination history.
This will obviously not end well, particularly for the unwitting test subjects of the Third World. But if it succeeds there, it will then be attempted here. Before it is, though, we’ll be subjected to a propaganda campaign touting the necessity of such an ID, or our REAL ID cards will just be swapped out without our ever knowing it happened.
