Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance

I dunno man, I migrated to the Netherlands and our digital ID is an amazing system that literally makes my life easier anytime i need to interact with something.

An open standard for the world to use for this seems like the ideal way you would want it to happen.

I also personally think we are going to need some form of digital id and hopefully some sort of attribute based credential implementation à la the DECODE project[1], where we can start raising the barrier of entry for all of these bot farms to require at least a felony in identity theft to start.

Curious what others opinions are :)

[1]: https://decodeproject.eu/publications/final-report-pilots-am...

This article is written from an anarcho-socialist perspective so it may not be that persuasive to many people.

In the US we don't have any official government digital ID but instead various data brokers are providing it... with no real oversight. If the people of the UK reject government digital ID they may get Palantir digital ID instead. It's not clear to me which is worse, the government playing by its own rules or private companies playing by essentially no rules. Europe may be better because at least they have GDPR.