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Microsoft, Accenture Team Up On Blockchain-based Digital ID Network (reuters.com)
Accenture and Microsoft are teaming up to build a digital ID network using blockchain technology, as part of a United Nations-supported project to provide legal identification to 1.1 billion people worldwide with no official documents. From a report: The companies unveiled a prototype of the network on Monday at the UN headquarters in New York during the second summit of ID2020, a public-private consortium promoting the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of providing legal identity for everyone on the planet. The project aims to help individuals such as refugees prove who they are in order to gain access to basic services such as education and healthcare. Blockchain, first developed as a public ledger of all transactions in the digital currency bitcoin, is increasingly being used to securely track data in other fields.
I've been waiting for this tech to get into the ID biz
IBM was in this business in the 1930s in Europe.
Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
Now everyone can have their unique ID tattooed on their wrists to make it more convenient.
Previous article https://politics.slashdot.org/... about almost 200,000,000 US voters' info leaking. Next it's going to go global. Bad idea.
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
Who doesn't want to be trailed from birth? It's a basic human right, certainly! /s
Because any project Big Time Consulting gets involved in always comes in under budget, on time and functions perfectly.
Why on earth would you buy _anything_ at all from accidenture? I mean microsoft royally sucks but atleast their products work to a degree, usually.
With accidenture you might as well be shoveling money to a furnace.
Okay, we have two companies working together who do not exactly have the more trustworthy reputation.
On one side, we have Microsoft, mass data collector who from Windows 8 started force feeding ads, private data extraction (see list here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...), also force feeding updates, lying about the nature of a number of their updates (categorized "critical" which includes a new ad server?!?) and their trying to force feed upgrades from Windows 7 (now trusting updates to windows 7 is also an issue).
On the other side we have Accenture. Does anyone remember that this is the new name for Author Anderson, who had a scandal with fudging financial records of a number of major corporations (https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1023409436545200).
And THESE people are creating legal verification records? Also remember Accenture does a LOT of IT recruiting now. Anybody see a new data fudge coming? A new name and hair dye may change the appearance of a tiger, but it doesn't change it's stripes or it's nature.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
I can't think of two companies I'd trust less.
So this is truly a test: Can strong enough cryptography overcome complete lack of confidence in counterparties.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
From the article:
"Without an identity you can't access education, financial services, healthcare, you name it. You are disenfranchised and marginalized from society," David Treat, a managing director in Accenture's financial services practice, said in an interview.
And with one, you can't "start a new life." You can't leave the mistakes of youth behind. You can't hide from crazed ex's. You can't slough off whatever it is that has made your life untenable or even hazardous in order to begin again.
Or maybe you can, if you have enough money... I wonder what the "New Life" service will look like and if it will come with different levels?
Bronze = new ID going forward, but your old ID is still connected to you, and your new ID references your old ID.
Silver = new ID, your old ID can no longer be used to retrieve current information about you, but your new ID can references your old ID
Gold = new ID, and there is no connection between the new and old IDs.
Platinum = new ID with a fake history, old ID shows you died, and you get to select your fake death and fake new history from a menu.
*** *** You're just jealous 'cause the voices talk to me... ***
The weakest of links my children.
Plan for it now.
Accenture is the "New Jersey" of tech companies. This will never come to fruition.
Anyone who is not immediately repelled and horrified by this concept is not, and has never been free.
If a free person is not breaking any law then they are free to complete any transaction they would like without providing documentation or proof to a third party, including the government. Any excuse presented to curtail your freedom is just that, a transparent excuse to put you in chains. War on terror, drugs, think of the children, etc. Part of the cost of living in a free society is understanding everyone's freedoms come at a cost. But it is worth the price.
So, the bleeding edge of technology will be used to "legally identify" a huge bunch of downtrodden miserables (hint: Victor Hugo's novel). Exactly the kind of humans who have little education, scant resources, live where even potable water is scarce, and certainly do not have a stellar Internet connection via the latest in computing gear.
Yeah, certainly smells like a guinea pig testbench for a modernized automatic version of Auschwitz-flavor crowd control.
Yea, as if ledgers can't be forged in a democratic-based blockchain.
Fuck right off you scam-sniffing fucks.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Has anyone ever had a good experience with Accenture? Asking for a friend.
What exactly is 'legal identification' and who defines it? What makes it legal or illegal? If I identify myself as...myself, because I am myself, who can tell me that I indeed am not myself? And would identifying myself without an accompanying legal document (papers, please?) be illegal? And if so, could I go to jail for illegally stating that I am who I am? Is this really what Microsoft is supposed to do? Or should do? Or should be ABLE to do?
So, over budget, behind schedule and full of bugs? They just need to add Oracle to the mix to get the trifecta of bad businesses! ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
You can bet MS only wants to get this fast money before it collapses.
Get out while you still can.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
people don't need government ids, but capitalist firms want to make money from this stupid move
"The project aims to help individuals such as refugees"
Do we all remember the old poem? "They came for the Wookies, but I wasn't a Wookie so I didn't speak up..."
So here they claim to 'help' the poorest, the disenfranchised and desperate. How can we criticize that? But where does it stop? Other minorities, other classes of poor and ignorant will be added to the list. Then union members and unemployed Uber drivers. I'll tell you where it stops--at the 1%.
...omphaloskepsis often...
The goal is one world government. This scheme to tag people (and inevitably control them) is just sickening.
Microsoft merges with Wal Mart in the late 2020s to try to form a counter force to the Amazon economic empire.
"The project aims to help individuals such as refugees prove who they are in order to gain access to basic services such as education and healthcare."
Why limit these things to people who prove who they are instead of just letting everyone at all have access?
Twinstiq, game news
Tagging the cattle, how noble
I will be VERY surprised if this is a decentralized solution with irreversible transactions, etc. Most likely it's just a bunch of buzzwords for a new centralized database that can be edited at whim by whoever happens to be deemed an authority.