Off Guardian | Kit Knightly
It looks like we can add another to the growing mountain of problems that digital IDs are going to solve for all of us.
We already know that digital IDs will help counter populism, and illegal immigration, and crime, and benefit fraud, and terrorism, and pandemics.
But they’ll help tackle poverty now as well. That’s according to a report published a few days ago by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation:
Digital IDs are an effective tool against poverty. A global solution is making them available to millions.
I do love “making them available” in that sentence. As if the world is full of people desperately crying out for digital ID that the powers that be have been unable to supply, when the truth is literally the exact opposite of that.
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