Gotta smart phone James? Yeah? Bring it with you when you globe trot around the world, or do you leave it home? The latter question doesn’t really matter all that much, but, the point being is that you acquiesce to the digital surveillance and identification system that’s already in place, too. The so-called “digital ID” is simply icing on the cake. It’s represents data efficiency (energy), with less redundancy – so they won’t have to build quite as many data centers as they would without such a universal, monolithic system.
The only thing left, really, at least in the near term – in order to catch up to their Eastern counterpart (China) – is for Western (democratic ha-ha) societies to sign into law and implement the social credit score, and all that goes with it. That is coming to the Americas, and Europe. I’m sure Japan won’t be too far behind….
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