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Look, it’s really simple:
👉 Don’t scan my face
👉 Don’t track my every move
👉 Don’t force digital IDs on me
👉 Don’t monitor my purchases
👉 Don’t build a digital prison and call it “progress”
👉 AND don’t call me "black pilled!"
Privacy isn’t extreme.
Mass surveillance is.
— J Bassler
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Yes.
And, digital IDs are probably inevitable. It’s amazing that we’ve come this far with scribbles on paper and a bad photo as proof of identity, when public key cryptography is widely deployed.
What we don’t want is a centralized/government-controlled digital ID system that allows for surveillance of all activities. The individual must be the one in control of their own digital ID, granting access to who and for what purposes, and for how long, they choose. There would still have to be public notaries involved, cryptographically signing to verify authenticity of a citizen’s digital ID, which could be used to authenticate for government services, such as voting.
We have the technology to do it in a way that protects privacy, rather than perpetuating a dystopian surveillance state.
