Comment by AndrewKemendo

Comment by AndrewKemendo a day ago

How many ways can you slice a cake?

The point is that the more identifiable information that the monopoly on violence has the easier it is for something, anything really, to be used against you should your tribal affiliation conflict with the ruling party.

This is like politics 101

dvdkon a day ago

At least where I live, there's no extra information being gathered. The only difference is that I no longer have to physically go somewhere to deal with that information, because I can sign in to government services online.

Information that was previously in paper form and scattered across various bureaus is now being digitised and centralised, but that's orthogonal to "digital ID"!

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AndrewKemendo 21 hours ago

Centralized consolidation of PII IS THE RISK

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- dvdkon 21 hours ago
  
  Yes, but that means digital ID isn't the thing to complain about.
  
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  AndrewKemendo 19 hours ago
  
  Both. Digital ID is so threatening it would require a perfect organization
  Much like all technologies they have social impact at their roots and have to be evaluated together
  
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  dvdkon 18 hours ago
  
  I don't see how that's the case for digital ID by itself. I'm also pretty sure that we can analyse the impact of a single technology without also blaming it for the downsides of other, distinct policies.
  
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amarant 8 hours ago

Sounds more like crack addict conspiracy theories 101 tbh

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