Digital ID - limits and privacy
boon or bane? I guess it depends on 'problem'
There is a lot of confusion about digital ID. It is remarkable thoth, which aims to reduce human identity to a few digits. It is fast. It saves time. There is a trade-off - information.
The information or data : can be simple broken down to following components
needs/wants of person A
a provider of a service/utility : person B
what and where is the ‘transaction’
what and how much : A paid B to get a job done
the banks and balance of it
It sounds simple enough : but also provides almost real-time control over ‘money’ and hence ‘choices of both - A and B.
Trust : between A and B : ensures it. Ledger and its enforcement : police stuff etx.
Needs / Wants and Privacy
The solution looks ideal : if the govt of the world and the arts/crafts genius which runs it : use it with ‘trust’.
Trust : the govt to own the ‘ledger’ and enforce it - using law.
Constraints Define Solutions
The constraints of population : and their enablement to use a new money/medium : is always a challenge.
More so when considering ‘scale’ of undeveloped world.
Why Digital ID makes sense for ‘Developing Countries’?
It is not ‘compulsory’ : just convenience : enforced at places with ‘queues’
the arts/crafts : govt machinery : which runs these ops : has no ‘privacy’
just whims of sarkari / govt officials : and their ‘morals’
ensure tax collection or collect patterns of it
to ensure black money assimilation and the historical imbalance of it
due to ‘slavery’ and unequal power transfer in chaos of ‘independence’
Illogical for ‘Developed Countries’
The queues : not there…
if there : can always be used to generate ; employment
Trust : in govt : was there : before few decades : specifically 1971
Culture : Peeps to Peep : trust : religion and its respect : enforced it
no ‘need’, since ‘scale’ was reachable
The reasons are historical. Since ‘economic equality’ was part of their past : no slavery and chaos of division..broad pattern
which basically is a way to ensure ‘control’ beyond independence : kangress and our page 3
slavery beyond physical : independence
education, money, law : blueprint of brit india and their icestual understanding of ‘culture’ - color
Is there a point to all this?
There is a solution. I did lay out all the key principles and entities in this bleh blah.
The problem : seems simple : but the solution : is convoluted.
Think on it : i know the ‘solution’ : it is always in ‘constraints’.