Mastercard and Microsoft Have a Frightening Plan to Create Universal “Digital Identities”

[Swordsmyth]

Sometimes a business inadvertently drops the pretense and just tells the world its real intentions. We saw this yesterday, when Amazon bragged about how it “allowed” an employee to lose 100 pounds by endlessly delivering boxes. Amazon saw this as a heartwarming tale about how great it is to work for the e-commerce juggernaut. It completely missed the subtext: Who needs a gym when someone can physically labor for their corporate overlord and lose weight?

Now we have another, possibly darker example. Mastercard announced a new partnership with Microsoft that is tackling “digital identities.” Here’s how it described the project in a tweet:

Voting, driving, applying for a job, renting a home, getting married and boarding a plane: what do these all have in common? You need to prove your identity. In partnership with @Microsoft, we are working to create universally-recognized digital identity. https://t.co/He5syqa5g7
— Mastercard News (@MastercardNews) December 3, 2018

Essentially, the tweet described every action an adult human takes that is both highly intimate and requires sharing personal and confidential details. The companies are building a solution that would create a “universally-recognized digital identity.” To the corporations, this is a brilliant solution! To everyone else, it may feel more than a bit dystopian.
What this announcement seems to be describing is a streamlined identification system: a not-too-far-off world where people are identified under a universal protocol that checks in on them at various points during their lives–when they vote, when they get married, etc. It’s the kind of a citizen-check system a totalitarian regime could only dream of.

More at: https://www.fastcompany.com/90276216...id-partnership


Revelation
Chapter 13

11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
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.

[Danke]

MasterCard shuts down Robert Spencer’s Patreon account, offers no explanation.

This is 'no doubt part of the ongoing efforts of the Left to deny all platforms to those who reject its agenda.'

http://caldronpool.com/mastercard-sh...o-explanation/

[angelatc]

It completely missed the subtext: Who needs a gym when someone can physically labor for their corporate overlord and lose weight?

Millenials hate working, and I hate getting constantly reminded of that.

[DamianTV]

With zero Financial Privacy, there is absolutely NO LIMIT to what they can force you to do, or risk getting your microchip turned off and turned into a non-citizen / non-person.

Fixed Habits of Reaction to Authority. or else...

[devil21]

Bar-coded baby on front of 2019 Economist cover.

We've always been considered "commercial property" under the law (UCC), mostly unbeknownst to the general population. Now, they think people are sufficiently dumbed down and conditioned enough to accept openly being identified as "commercial property" via bar-coding or other "mark"ing.

[Slave Mentality]

With zero Financial Privacy, there is absolutely NO LIMIT to what they can force you to do, or risk getting your microchip turned off and turned into a non-citizen / non-person.

Fixed Habits of Reaction to Authority. or else...

It will all lead to citizen scoring systems like they are rolling out in China with the assistance of Google and other American companies.

[Anti Federalist]

It will all lead to citizen scoring systems like they are rolling out in China with the assistance of Google and other American companies.

Of course it is.

And everything else that everybody mentioned.

Now, just what the $#@! is anybody gonna do about it?

The French people have had enough, they turned out in the streets and raised hell.



Enough so that the hated fuel tax was rescinded by the Macron government.

It is beyond time that "we" start doing the same thing and drop any further delusions of "civility".

This is $#@!ing war, war for survival.

They want to make it hot for "our" people in their homes, in businesses and public life?

We need to make ten times hotter for MasterCard's CEO, for Zuckerberg, for Tim Cook, for Sundar Pichai all the rest of the modern day robber barons about unleash hell on earth.

Bleating platitudes about voting and "free" markets is helpless, hopeless and useless.

These people and millions more like them, will use the very system we're trying to protect to destroy us, invade us, displace us and exterminate us.

Wake the $#@! up and fight back or die.

Those are the only two choices left.

[phill4paul]

Of course it is.

And everything else that everybody mentioned.

Now, just what the $#@! is anybody gonna do about it?

The French people have had enough, they turned out in the streets and raised hell.



Enough so that the hated fuel tax was rescinded by the Macron government.

It is beyond time that "we" start doing the same thing and drop any further delusions of "civility".

This is $#@!ing war, war for survival.

They want to make it hot for "our" people in their homes, in businesses and public life?

We need to make ten times hotter for MasterCard's CEO, for Zuckerberg, for Tim Cook, for Sundar Pichai all the rest of the modern day robber barons about unleash hell on earth.

Bleating platitudes about voting and "free" markets is helpless, hopeless and useless.

These people and millions more like them, will use the very system we're trying to protect to destroy us, invade us, displace us and exterminate us.

Wake the $#@! up and fight back or die.

Those are the only two choices left.

It'll take a catalyst. It always does. Such as the Boston Massacre. Or the Frenchie enviro/gas tax. An event that sticks in the craw and builds quickly through viral social media. I know, I know, should have happened at $#@!ing Waco. But, I believe an event is coming. Don't know where, when or why. But, it'll be something that will make thousands throw their guns in their cars and go. And those thousands will become tens of thousands. Bundy's Ranch wasn't it. But, I see it as a precursor. Something is coming that is going to release this pent up rage. I feel it like I feel the snow in the air.

[Schifference]

This is the way of the future.

Now that I am older I am finally beginning to accept things I cannot change. This is actually therapeutic and makes life less stressful.

[DamianTV]

The idea of Civil War scares the $#@! out of me. Not because of the potential to finally do something about the Tyrants, but rather the people that are so pissed off they will destroy anything and everything because theyve been so confused and medicated by the Tyrants, they do not know where to direct their anger. The US, unlike France, is wholy a $#@!ing mess. There will be so many people attacking so many other people and not having a clue as to where the real problems come from, it will be a miracle if we even survive. Worse yet, I swear the utter destruction of the US as a whole is a major part of the plan of the elite, to permanently wipe the very idea of Freedom from the pages of history, forever.

[Schifference]

The idea of Civil War scares the $#@! out of me. Not because of the potential to finally do something about the Tyrants, but rather the people that are so pissed off they will destroy anything and everything because theyve been so confused and medicated by the Tyrants, they do not know where to direct their anger. The US, unlike France, is wholy a $#@!ing mess. There will be so many people attacking so many other people and not having a clue as to where the real problems come from, it will be a miracle if we even survive. Worse yet, I swear the utter destruction of the US as a whole is a major part of the plan of the elite, to permanently wipe the very idea of Freedom from the pages of history, forever.

Yes that is a valid concern. Look what happens whenever the poor people perceive a misjustice. They burn buildings, loot their stores, damage cars........

[Grandmastersexsay]

I know it's fun to make things sound nefarious, but mastercard is probably just trying to fight identity theft, something that is rather costly for them.

[Schifference]

To think that in this technological era digital identity would not one day be realized would be short sighted.

[phill4paul]

The idea of Civil War scares the $#@! out of me. Not because of the potential to finally do something about the Tyrants, but rather the people that are so pissed off they will destroy anything and everything because theyve been so confused and medicated by the Tyrants, they do not know where to direct their anger. The US, unlike France, is wholy a $#@!ing mess. There will be so many people attacking so many other people and not having a clue as to where the real problems come from, it will be a miracle if we even survive. Worse yet, I swear the utter destruction of the US as a whole is a major part of the plan of the elite, to permanently wipe the very idea of Freedom from the pages of history, forever.

Not many choices then is there? Short of a world wide EMP.

[specsaregood]

The idea of Civil War scares the $#@! out of me. Not because of the potential to finally do something about the Tyrants, but rather the people that are so pissed off they will destroy anything and everything because theyve been so confused and medicated by the Tyrants, they do not know where to direct their anger. The US, unlike France, is wholy a $#@!ing mess. There will be so many people attacking so many other people and not having a clue as to where the real problems come from, it will be a miracle if we even survive. Worse yet, I swear the utter destruction of the US as a whole is a major part of the plan of the elite, to permanently wipe the very idea of Freedom from the pages of history, forever.

I have no idea why you would have the impression that France is any less of a "$#@!ing mess" than the US.

[Schifference]

You Will Be Controlled

[shakey1]

Resistance is futile.

[Bern]

Profiling people is big business for the data miners. I'm sure the NSA et. al. like it too.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...k-retail-sales

[Mach]

Wow, to a tee.

[Ender]

Profiling people is big business for the data miners. I'm sure the NSA et. al. like it too.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...k-retail-sales

Pretty sure NSA/Gov is over all of this.

IMHPOV this is exactly what the whole phony immigration "invasion" is for. Everyone runs around w/their hands in the air over these "invaders" and then will accept anything the gov forces on the American people for their "protection".

[heavenlyboy34]

Millenials hate working, and I hate getting constantly reminded of that.

This is a dumb stereotype that comes from media echo chambers, not reality.

[Swordsmyth]

I know it's fun to make things sound nefarious, but mastercard is probably just trying to fight identity theft, something that is rather costly for them.

[Anti Federalist]

Pretty sure NSA/Gov is over all of this.

IMHPOV this is exactly what the whole phony immigration "invasion" is for. Everyone runs around w/their hands in the air over these "invaders" and then will accept anything the gov forces on the American people for their "protection".

More people always means less freedom.

More people from cultures historically acclimated to tyrannical/corrupt governments and communist economies means even less freedom.

Just ask the people of New Hampshire about people from Massachusetts or the people of Texas and Montana about people from California or people from North Carolina about people from New Jersey.

[Ender]

More people always means less freedom.

More people from cultures historically acclimated to tyrannical/corrupt governments and communist economies means even less freedom.

Just ask the people of New Hampshire about people from Massachusetts or the people of Texas and Montana about people from California or people from North Carolina about people from New Jersey.

Try asking original Californians about their country that was taken by the tyrannical/corrupt US.

It's time for Liberty lovers to push freedom forward instead of bowing to the state & then asking it to solve the problems it continually creates.

[Swordsmyth]

Try asking original Californians about their country that was taken by the tyrannical/corrupt US.

It's time for Liberty lovers to push freedom forward instead of bowing to the state & then asking it to solve the problems it continually creates.

Letting millions of state loving invaders in won't get you there.

[Grandmastersexsay]

Why are you so anxious to make a conspiracy theory about something that has a far more reasonable explanation? Identify theft is probably the most expensive part of their business. They're not doing it out of the kindness of their hearts. They, or more specifically, their affiliates pay for fraudulent purchases and protect their members. Rarely do they get to recoup those losses through police enforcement.

I hate the sound of a digital identity, but I can understand why they would like it. They're a company who cares about profits. Framing their actions as nefarious just seems silly. How would that help there bottom line?

[Swordsmyth]

Why are you so anxious to make a conspiracy theory about something that has a far more reasonable explanation? Identify theft is probably the most expensive part of their business. They're not doing it out of the kindness of their hearts. They, or more specifically, their affiliates pay for fraudulent purchases and protect their members. Rarely do they get to recoup those losses through police enforcement.

I hate the sound of a digital identity, but I can understand why they would like it. They're a company who cares about profits. Framing their actions as nefarious just seems silly. How would that help there bottom line?

Why are you so anxious to deny the existence of conspiracies when history is full of them and the evidence of current conspiracies is overwhelming?

[Grandmastersexsay]

Why are you so anxious to deny the existence of conspiracies when history is full of them and the evidence of current conspiracies is overwhelming?

People who make everything a conspiracy often lose credibility. When I see an obvious answer, I usually choose that one. I'll entertain conspiracy theories, especially with sound evidence. I don't see it here.

[Swordsmyth]

People who make everything a conspiracy often lose credibility. When I see an obvious answer, I usually choose that one. I'll entertain conspiracy theories, especially with sound evidence. I don't see it here.

The agenda here is obvious, this is part of the oligarch's agenda and they are pursuing it from many angles, it would be highly unlikely that this wasn't part of the larger campaign.

[angelatc]

Why are you so anxious to make a conspiracy theory about something that has a far more reasonable explanation? Identify theft is probably the most expensive part of their business. They're not doing it out of the kindness of their hearts. They, or more specifically, their affiliates pay for fraudulent purchases and protect their members. Rarely do they get to recoup those losses through police enforcement.

I hate the sound of a digital identity, but I can understand why they would like it. They're a company who cares about profits. Framing their actions as nefarious just seems silly. How would that help there bottom line?

I doubt it's as much about identity theft as it is creating a global credit scoring system.