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by yuvadam 252 days ago
TFA talks about how pervasive Digital ID (no quotes) systems are in everyday life, with multiple examples, feels very concrete and not at all vague.
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You mean the biometric systems in India or geofencing in South Africa and the like? Absolutely no one ever used ”Digital ID” for those phenomena which is my point. TFA takes a wide range of dystopian tech and says ”these are digital ID, ergo digital ID is dystopian!”