Skybird
06-25-23, 08:58 AM
The blog "Tichys Einblicke" (Tichy's Insights) tells this wet dream fairy tale, which unfortunately is not a fairy tale, but a terrible dictatorial reality. Especially Europe is extremely eager to become a digital all-surveillance tyranny like China. Many politicians are too stupid to realise this, the rest lie to the people without remorse and without scruples. Serfdom and dictatorship is what all political parties want to enforce on us.
https://www.tichyseinblick.de/kolumnen/aus-aller-welt/un-digitale-identitaet-bankkonto-digitalpakt/
A translated link to the text seems to be not possible. Also, I fear, territory barriers.
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UN to link digital identity to bank account
The adoption of the new UN Digital Pact is planned for next year. A briefing shows where the journey could lead: Ecological agriculture is to serve as a fig leaf for the technical optimisation of humanity. A digital identity is to be linked to bank accounts.
It is yet another "consensus document that is supposed to make governments more accountable". That's how Regine Grienberger, the cyber ambassador at the German Foreign Office, explains it. Yes, this title really exists: German ambassador in cyber uncharted territory, so to speak. You might also call her the representative for cyber foreign policy. But what she says means more than her title. The document she is referring to is the Global Digital Compact (GDC), a global digital treaty that the United Nations has been trying to get off the ground for a few years now.
A "Summit for the Future" is planned for 2024, at which UN Secretary-General António Guterres wants the digital treaty to be adopted by the "world leaders". One can imagine the associated decision-making process as a wish-come-true for the digital community. Expressed in fashionable formulaic language: What can you do with "digital"? For example, you could fish plastic parts out of the ocean with satellite images and learning machines, they say. Irrigation systems can also be optimised and prevented from leaking, in other words, they can be made more economical. And drones can monitor crops to see how much water they need. That, too, seems like a sensible technical project. Besides, there are also simple more-is-more messages that would not have needed UN experts: "The availability of internet leads to more jobs."
Even the left-turning to pro-government digital conference re:publica is still wondering whether this is about "global buzzword bingo" - i.e. empty verbiage - or a "real design opportunity for a #SustainableDigitalAge"? Here, the ecologistic sustainability economy is swept out as a moral fig leaf to make the loss of freedom seem acceptable.
The human being as a watering plant irrigated by the state
But the UN Digital Pact is about more than technical measures and technological innovations. It is about politics, i.e. about people living together. In the end, according to the UN plan, human beings will also be technologically "optimised", becoming cyborgs consisting of a physical body and a digital identity. These are measures that "may" affect everyone, to quote a favourite word of the authors of the pact.
A UN briefing on the Digital Pact states (translated from English here): "Digital identities linked to bank or mobile money accounts can (!) improve the delivery of social services and serve to better reach eligible beneficiaries. Digital technologies can (!) help reduce data leakage, errors and costs in the design of social programmes."
So, where the state provides something (social benefits), it also wants to get something, namely control over the fact that these benefits are not exploited, do not trickle away in the social sand like the irrigation water through a hole in the irrigation hose. People and citizens are thus understood as watering plants irrigated by the state. So, in order to better control this process of citizen watering, a "digital identity" linked to the personal money account is to be created. Of course, it is thus in the world and can spread further. If we now add the considerations of a social credit system based on the Chinese model, we quickly arrive at a comprehensive monitoring system that can and should reward and punish.
Incidentally, a first attempt in this direction has already been made in Germany: When it came to paying out Corona aid of a few hundred euros to students as well, applicants could (!) only log into the programme using a digital identity. Observers noted that something was to be introduced here through the back door.
The UN Digital Pact also talks about "new platform-based vaccine technologies and smart vaccine production techniques". What does this have to do with digitalisation? Vaccines, according to all that is known, only work in analogue. Others say that the digital motive is also the dominant one here via the "vaccination passport". The injection of any substance thus only serves to make it measurable, to measure the citizens who have had to register every time they move across national borders and who may soon have to do so again.
Speaking of which, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is reportedly planning to make the EU vaccination certificate the basis for a global certification network. In July 2021, digital certificates for "Covid vaccinations", tests or a person's convalescent status were rolled out across the EU. Now the WHO wants to take over the technical infrastructure of the project. The idea of the Greek Kyriakos Mitsotakis, which Ursula von der Leyen was happy to adopt, could thus ultimately lead to the formation of a global data octopus.
The UN briefing from May also states that there should be open-source vaccines whose data are published digitally. In this way, production is to be accelerated and, if necessary, quickly expanded. This, too, is an ideology that refers to the complete supply of a commodity that people have not necessarily been waiting for.
The creation of the Pact is presented in a particularly modern (and fashionable) way as a so-called "multi-stakeholder process", by which is meant the involvement of non-governmental representatives. Everyone knows that this is above all an instrument that makes the process itself even more opaque than it already is - part of the NGOisation of political decisions.
In the end, even the effective participation of these agents from "civil society" is not guaranteed. Perhaps they only serve as a fig leaf ... Thank God, others will say. For these "non-state" agents are even more unknown than the state actors and by no means always independent of the states. State actors include, for example, the UN ambassadors of Sweden and Rwanda, who are leading the development of this new UN pact.
All this is happening far away in New York or Geneva boardrooms. One can literally watch democratic control slip through the fingers at this point. Meanwhile, the State Department also offers roundtable discussions on the subject in Kenya, India and Mexico. But in the end, the effects of the global treaty are to be expected locally, as Regine Grienberger's sentence quoted at the beginning makes clear. The national governments are to be bound by it and can pull out the Digital Pact themselves at any time where they want to justify themselves and show a guideline for their actions.
https://www.tichyseinblick.de/kolumnen/aus-aller-welt/un-digitale-identitaet-bankkonto-digitalpakt/
A translated link to the text seems to be not possible. Also, I fear, territory barriers.
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UN to link digital identity to bank account
The adoption of the new UN Digital Pact is planned for next year. A briefing shows where the journey could lead: Ecological agriculture is to serve as a fig leaf for the technical optimisation of humanity. A digital identity is to be linked to bank accounts.
It is yet another "consensus document that is supposed to make governments more accountable". That's how Regine Grienberger, the cyber ambassador at the German Foreign Office, explains it. Yes, this title really exists: German ambassador in cyber uncharted territory, so to speak. You might also call her the representative for cyber foreign policy. But what she says means more than her title. The document she is referring to is the Global Digital Compact (GDC), a global digital treaty that the United Nations has been trying to get off the ground for a few years now.
A "Summit for the Future" is planned for 2024, at which UN Secretary-General António Guterres wants the digital treaty to be adopted by the "world leaders". One can imagine the associated decision-making process as a wish-come-true for the digital community. Expressed in fashionable formulaic language: What can you do with "digital"? For example, you could fish plastic parts out of the ocean with satellite images and learning machines, they say. Irrigation systems can also be optimised and prevented from leaking, in other words, they can be made more economical. And drones can monitor crops to see how much water they need. That, too, seems like a sensible technical project. Besides, there are also simple more-is-more messages that would not have needed UN experts: "The availability of internet leads to more jobs."
Even the left-turning to pro-government digital conference re:publica is still wondering whether this is about "global buzzword bingo" - i.e. empty verbiage - or a "real design opportunity for a #SustainableDigitalAge"? Here, the ecologistic sustainability economy is swept out as a moral fig leaf to make the loss of freedom seem acceptable.
The human being as a watering plant irrigated by the state
But the UN Digital Pact is about more than technical measures and technological innovations. It is about politics, i.e. about people living together. In the end, according to the UN plan, human beings will also be technologically "optimised", becoming cyborgs consisting of a physical body and a digital identity. These are measures that "may" affect everyone, to quote a favourite word of the authors of the pact.
A UN briefing on the Digital Pact states (translated from English here): "Digital identities linked to bank or mobile money accounts can (!) improve the delivery of social services and serve to better reach eligible beneficiaries. Digital technologies can (!) help reduce data leakage, errors and costs in the design of social programmes."
So, where the state provides something (social benefits), it also wants to get something, namely control over the fact that these benefits are not exploited, do not trickle away in the social sand like the irrigation water through a hole in the irrigation hose. People and citizens are thus understood as watering plants irrigated by the state. So, in order to better control this process of citizen watering, a "digital identity" linked to the personal money account is to be created. Of course, it is thus in the world and can spread further. If we now add the considerations of a social credit system based on the Chinese model, we quickly arrive at a comprehensive monitoring system that can and should reward and punish.
Incidentally, a first attempt in this direction has already been made in Germany: When it came to paying out Corona aid of a few hundred euros to students as well, applicants could (!) only log into the programme using a digital identity. Observers noted that something was to be introduced here through the back door.
The UN Digital Pact also talks about "new platform-based vaccine technologies and smart vaccine production techniques". What does this have to do with digitalisation? Vaccines, according to all that is known, only work in analogue. Others say that the digital motive is also the dominant one here via the "vaccination passport". The injection of any substance thus only serves to make it measurable, to measure the citizens who have had to register every time they move across national borders and who may soon have to do so again.
Speaking of which, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is reportedly planning to make the EU vaccination certificate the basis for a global certification network. In July 2021, digital certificates for "Covid vaccinations", tests or a person's convalescent status were rolled out across the EU. Now the WHO wants to take over the technical infrastructure of the project. The idea of the Greek Kyriakos Mitsotakis, which Ursula von der Leyen was happy to adopt, could thus ultimately lead to the formation of a global data octopus.
The UN briefing from May also states that there should be open-source vaccines whose data are published digitally. In this way, production is to be accelerated and, if necessary, quickly expanded. This, too, is an ideology that refers to the complete supply of a commodity that people have not necessarily been waiting for.
The creation of the Pact is presented in a particularly modern (and fashionable) way as a so-called "multi-stakeholder process", by which is meant the involvement of non-governmental representatives. Everyone knows that this is above all an instrument that makes the process itself even more opaque than it already is - part of the NGOisation of political decisions.
In the end, even the effective participation of these agents from "civil society" is not guaranteed. Perhaps they only serve as a fig leaf ... Thank God, others will say. For these "non-state" agents are even more unknown than the state actors and by no means always independent of the states. State actors include, for example, the UN ambassadors of Sweden and Rwanda, who are leading the development of this new UN pact.
All this is happening far away in New York or Geneva boardrooms. One can literally watch democratic control slip through the fingers at this point. Meanwhile, the State Department also offers roundtable discussions on the subject in Kenya, India and Mexico. But in the end, the effects of the global treaty are to be expected locally, as Regine Grienberger's sentence quoted at the beginning makes clear. The national governments are to be bound by it and can pull out the Digital Pact themselves at any time where they want to justify themselves and show a guideline for their actions.