Digital IDs and the Extent to Which They Are Being Rolled Out Around the World, Part 2
Digital IDs and Facial Recognition Systems (an involuntary digital ID) are being imposed on populations around the world at a steady rate. Here is how it is developing.
Isaiah 40:8 (KJV)
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Part 1 of this series on Digital IDs and the Extent to Which They Are Being Rolled Out Around the World, can be found here:
This post, Part 2, will address the progress of digital IDs in the following countries: China, Japan, India, Philippines, and Nigeria. I have also done additional research and I include links to the updated information and research below.
China
China to Use Blockchain to Verify Identities with “RealDID”
In December 2023, it was announced by the Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN), China's national-level blockchain initiative, that China will use blockchain technology to identify and verify the real-name identities of China's 1.4 billion people. The initiative is led by China’s Ministry of Public Security in cooperation with the BSN and will be called “RealDID”.
According to a report by Biometric Update, the launch of RealDID:
“coincides with the adoption of new rules by China’s major social media platforms – WeChat, Sina Weibo, Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili and Xiaohongshu – which require accounts with more than half a million or a million followers (depending on the platform) to publicly display the real names of their owners or financial backers.
However, the larger decentralized ID (DID) project encompasses much more than social media. BSN, which is run by China’s National Information Center in tandem with tech firms China Mobile and China UnionPay, calls RealDID “the world’s first national-level real-name decentralized identity system.” The service is based on the CTID digital identity chain, which generates a distributed digital identity with traceable real-name attributes. BNS projects broader digital ID use cases for real-name DID, including verification, encrypted data transfer, personal identity certificates and more. As stated in a release, its overarching goal is in keeping with digital ID projects worldwide: to give users more ownership and control over their own data, and more choice in what data they share with which platforms and services.”
China to Implement a Digital ID Social Credit System
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