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Three questions about the multi-billion dollar biometric digital-ID industry:

Three questions about the multi-billion dollar biometric digital-ID industry:

1. There is no country where citizens called for biometric digital-ID – so in whose interests is it being imposed? 2. If human rights are entitlements due to all human beings unconditionally, why are govts making them conditional on biometric ID? 3. What is the logical end point if we allow states and corporations to conduct ever-more intrusive mass surveillance of our daily lives? I am constantly shocked to see the billions of dollars endlessly poured into biometric digital-ID systems…

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Decolonising Digital Public Infrastructure

Decolonising Digital Public Infrastructure

This post explores whether digital public infrastructure (DPI) can be considered to be a colonial technology and if so, what would be necessary to decolonise DPI? In recent years the agenda to impose biometric digital-ID across the globe has widened into a ‘digital public infrastructure’ that links biometric digital-ID systems to digital payments systems and data exchange platforms. This trilogy of technologies enables efficiencies in the state’s digital payments for social security entitlements to citizens such as pensions and benefits,…

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