UN Chief: ‘Link Bank Accounts To IDs Globally’
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
NEW YORK (Worthy News) – The United Nations secretary general wants to introduce a worldwide digital identity document (ID) system linked to individuals’ bank accounts.
Antonio Guterres writes in a policy brief seen by Worthy News that “Digital IDs linked with bank or mobile money accounts can improve the delivery of social protection coverage and serve to better reach eligible beneficiaries.”
He adds that “Digital technologies may help to reduce leakage, errors and costs in the design of social protection programs.”
The plan, similar to the system developed by the World Economic Forum (WEF), comes despite concerns it would lead to more control by unelected officials over people’s lives.
In his brief on “Our Common Agenda,” Guterres makes clear that his “vision” should receive the green light in September 2024 during “The Summit for the Future.”
The U.N. move follows an initiative by the WEF with a leading biometrics company to advance its own agenda to digitize humanity.
Swedish biometrics company Fingerprint Cards participates in WEF’s New Champions Community, an assembly of mid-sized enterprises.
BIOMETRIC FORMS
The WEF says it wants to promote “biometric forms” of digital ID and says the technology serves as a steward of “social inclusion.”
The New Champions Community’s schedule includes a meeting in Tianjin, China, from June 27 to 29 during the WEF Summer Davos gathering.
“Essentially, the objective is to have people, devices, and entities, all tied up in a connected network that could be centrally administered, seemingly by unelected bureaucrats,” complained commentator Frank Bergman of the slaynews.com media outlet.
“When those planning this future scheme worry about any negative impact, they never see it as potentially affecting everyone – but only “civil society (…) or selected groups excluded from social benefits.”
The revealed U.N. initiative of the global linking of bank accounts personal IDs with bank accounts comes after Guterres already unveiled a “Global Digital Compact” to police “hate and lies” about issues such as climate change.
Guterres said that the “advent of generative [Artificial Intelligence] AI must not distract us from the damage digital technology is already doing to our world.”
SOCIAL MEDIA
He stressed the “proliferation of hate and lies in the digital space is causing grave global harm – now,” including “undermining public health and climate action – now.”
Social media platforms “have helped the United Nations to engage people worldwide in our pursuit of peace, dignity, and human rights on a healthy planet,” Guterres told reporters.
“But today, this same technology is often a source of fear, not hope,” he noticed.
“Digital platforms are being misused to subvert science and spread disinformation and hate to billions of people.”
Critics said Guterres effectively suggested a global Orwellian ‘thought police’ run by governments to monitor expressions outside the U.N. narrative on, for instance, global warming or “gender equality.”
Guterres says his moves are part of the proposed “Global Digital Compact [and] New Agenda for Peace.”
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