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Reminder from 2021: “the World Bank has taken down its blog talking up the development and gender equality benefits of Afghanistan’s digital ID system”

2023-11-07 10:06:22+00:00

It turns out that deploying Digital ID cards in a country which subsequently has a totalitarian crackdown, is a bad idea. A bit like what happened in the Netherlands in 1941, really.

ID cards — and nowadays, Digital ID — is more about empowering third parties (like the state) to prevent people from doing things, than it is to enable them.
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