Title: Idemia: The Corporation Building Spy Grid in China, National ID in India Also Creates Drivers Licenses in the U.S. Source:
Old-Thinker News URL Source:http://www.oldthinkernews.com/2018/ ... s-drivers-licenses-in-the-u-s/ Published:Aug 22, 2018 Author:Daniel Taylor Post Date:2018-08-22 10:13:21 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:9830 Comments:55
Company that helps manufacture U.S. citizens drivers licenses brags of “building and managing databases of entire populations” across the globe.
Big Tech has gathered unprecedented amounts of personal data from millions of people. At the same time, a system of total surveillance has been constructed: Facial recognition, biometric scanning, cell phone surveillance and more have amassed a huge amount of information.
We see the stories about the growing surveillance state, but we dont hear about the gigantic multinational corporation that is helping to build the physical infrastructure supporting it.
Idemia (formerly Morpho), is a billion dollar multinational corporation. It is responsible for building a significant portion of the world’s biometric surveillance and security systems, operating in about 70 countries. Some American clients of the company include the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and the FBI.
The company website says that Morpho has been “…building and managing databases of entire populations…” for many years.
Morpho has been building and managing databases of entire populations for governments, law enforcement agencies and other government bodies around the world, whether for national ID, health cards, bank cards or even driver license programs.
The company is now pushing digital license trials in the U.S. Delaware and Iowa are among five states involved in the trials this year. With the mobile license, law enforcement will be able to wirelessly “ping” a drivers smartphone for their license. The move is part of a wider trend toward cashless payment.
Idemia is assisting China and India with building surveillance and ID systems, trafficking in huge amounts of biometric data across the world.
In China, Idemia has helped build the massive biometric scanning and surveillance system that is used to keep Chinese citizens under a tyrannical boot.
The company has provided biometric payment and authentication systems to the country.
“With a sales office in Hong Kong, Morpho offers services and solutions in the field of digital identity and smart transactions. The world leader in multibiometric identification technologies, Morpho supplies biometric identification systems to Chinese police forces and government immigration agencies.”
“Morpho has also provided facial recognition systems to police agencies in Shanghai, Tianjin, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Jiangxi, Guangzhou and Wenzhou.”
In India, the controversial Aadhaar national ID card system is also enjoying the support of Idemia through Safran Identity & Security, now part of Idemia. The company states that it is “in charge of all technological aspects of Aadhaar”.
“Morpho is one of the companies chosen to take part in an unprecedented program called Aadhaar to count everyone residing in India and then assign each person a unique identification number. Morpho is in charge of all technological aspects of Aadhaar.
One of the court filings (Mathew Thomas vs Union of India) details the rise of China’s social credit system, comparing the Indian Aadhaar initiative to the Chinese program.
“The Chinese government initially permitted corporations to aggregate personal data of their customers and built algorithms that could then rate the worth of these customers. As such applications began to get integrated and large technology companies began to dominate every aspect of citizen lives, the ‘Social Credit Rating Systems’ that these companies ran became all the more pervasive.
Once this system had taken hold of the entire country, the State Council of the Central Government in China released an Outline of the Social Credit System Construction Plan (2014-2020), which specifies that such Social Credit Rating Systems would be integrated into their governance by 2020. This represents the integration of such infrastructure into the central architecture of the State, and would ensure a devastating amount of State control over its citizens”.
A disturbingly similar pattern is being followed in the United States. Big Tech (Google, Apple, Facebook) has already gathered most of our personal data. It has also absorbed around 90% of internet traffic, and is now openly allying with communist Chinese policies.
Between Idemia issuing digital drivers licenses to U.S. citizens and Big Tech’s data collection, we are inches away from a fully integrated national ID system and an accompanying social credit score.
At the moment, the United States does not have a government backed program like the Chinese. However, if gone unchecked, a de-facto social credit system could still take hold due to the pervasiveness of big tech influence.
Idemia is building the infrastructure of the massive world-wide biometric surveillance grid. Demand for “convenience” with wireless, cardless, cashless payment and shopping is driving us right into their hands.
Idemia is building the infrastructure of the massive world-wide biometric surveillance grid. Demand for “convenience” with wireless, cardless, cashless payment and shopping is driving us right into their hands.
Yes, it is. And BECAUSE convenience IS paramount in busy lives, and we WILL be going to world-wide biometric surveillance, we HAVE TO UNDERSTAND that traditional morality - which has ALWAYS only been sustained through the opacity of private life and through massive hypocrisy, will no longer work. Traditional morality and its very ineffective enforcement mechanisms will, in an efficient surveillance and enforcement state, become the chain by which every life will be subjected to tyranny.
The ONLY escape from this is to change to the laws that allow the enforcement of morality certain aspects of morality, so that things that used to be subject to censure can no longer be prosecuted at all.
We HAVE TO UNDERSTAND that traditional morality - which has ALWAYS only been sustained through the opacity of private life and through massive hypocrisy, will no longer work.
HUH??
Again I don't understood where you're coming from.
"Traditional morality" is simply Bible-based. "The Golden Rule"; Ten Commandments; The "Protestant-Ethic".
This consensus of "traditional morality" has worked extremely well for the USA...until the 1960s.
Moreover, it's "traditional", even innate that the human conscience *knows* right and wrong": Lying, cheating, murder, greed...are wrong in ALL cultures. (except in fundamentally evil ones.)
The fool said he would choose Hillary and all of her abortion supreme court judges over cruz.
Today the dipshit said he would vote for Perot if it meant we get Clinton and all his rapes. Vic isn't right in the head. But you already know that from his delusions about raising cockroaches and rats from the dead.
I like Vic. I know you do too some degree. He's an honest poster (even if you and I don't agree with him at times), and contributes a bunch to ponder about.
That said, he is an enigma. Philosophically and politically he's all over the place.
To have supported Clinton to ANY degree was/is just insane.
The thing about veteran posters who've posted at FR, LP and LF -- some of us can indeed see the changes upon others that have taken place over the many years. Even among ourselves.
Most have mellowed to a degree. Others have embraced Eyes Wide Open; others have fallen prey to propaganda they used to fight tooth and nail.
Willie Green has changed to a dramatic degree; Vic also to a substantial degree.
What I *don't* understand is...rejecting ALL the evidence that public opinion and so-called "education" is rigged, while NOT grasping and fighting against the total evil and hijacking of the US Government by the Left's minions and Globalists.
That said, he is an enigma. Philosophically and politically he's all over the place.
But I'm not!
I am consistent. There is a set of things I want, and I will ally with ANYBODY to get those things - and I will turn on anybody and fight him if he is trying to undo what I want.
I am loyal to my beliefs, which means that I am loyal to whomever is with me AS FAR AS HE IS WITH ME, and will fight with him once he takes the other side of something that is important to me.
I have a very clear and discernible set of religious, moral and economic beliefs, and have held them consistently for decades. They are not the same as Republican, or Democrat, or Protestant, or Anglo-Saxon.
They are common-sensical, practical, Catholic-based (but not rigidly Catholic - the Catholic Church burnt a messenger of God, after all, and makes some pretty bad mistakes) and rooted in a concern for placing the needs of human beings at the center of the purpose of government, while leaving vast swathes of human activity off limits to government intrusion. My economics are pragmatic, not ideological, and I observe from history and experience that ideological economics are rigid, unrealistic, and don't work out too well over time, while pragmatic economics do.
You and Stone are ideologues, with very strong religious ideologies. I am a pragmatist with knowledge of the existence and will of God - and I follow what I understand to be his will precisely BECAUSE I am a pragmatist, not simply because somebody said "God said so".
It would be more productive, for example, to work out with me why it is that I so stubbornly support Social Security, which you and other ideologues seem to so thoroughly detest. That could result in an actual understanding of where I am coming from, which would be valuable for you if you seriously hope to actually help your side WIN on anything involving the matter. There are very pragmatic reasons why we need Social Security. Ideology cannot conquer them: we will not "assume a can opener". I understand you, and Stone. He mocks MY religion relentlessly, both the Catholic part of it and the personal experiences that show it to be true. What possible meeting of the minds can there be? I think his religious beliefs do not come from the real God, and he thinks I am a crazy liar who worships in Satan's front office at the feet of the Pope. Pretty tough to have a strategy conference when on side thinks that about the other.
