Biometrics Boom
WaPo – This will not play out well:
“When you’re talking about credentialing the federal workforce and contractors, you’re talking about maybe 10 million people. When you’re talking first responders, you’re at 20, 30 or 40 million people,” said Thomas Greco, a vice president at Herndon-based Cybertrust Inc. “But when you’re talking credentialing all registered drivers in the United States, you’re up to hundreds of millions of people. Nobody is losing sight of that.”
Even in the most competant hands this can spiral out of control – but in a large and very inefficient bureaucracy this is more than likely. The system will likely prove to be a nuisance (the first generation tech never operates at 100%) and will be cracked (the bad guys are smarter than the good guys because they are faster). These will cause the feedback loops to compound upon themselves – the systems not working so we will try to fix it, repeatedly – to a point where it ossifies into something able to be governed by a gigantic bureaucracy. A primary indicator- the background check system is utterly backlogged but remains a vital component of getting one of the new ID’s.
An inflexible ID system created and enforced by linear thinkers treating an open subsystem (part of the global platform) as a closed one is an absolute nogo – and a major part of the nation state’s doom loop.
-Shlok
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