https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PxvNzzgoJX8
For context, the French company Thales Group is "the 8th largest defence contractor in the world with 55% of its total sales being military sales".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales_Group
They are proudly proposing that we outsource government functions to them, promoting the proprietary tech they will use to that end.
Thales is one those supposedly private companies that is actually owned by the french state and french state apparatchiks. The biggest shareholder is the french state itself (26%), then other companies which, surprise, are also partially french state owned. It's all Dassault, Airbus, EADS etc.: they're all basically partially french state owned and own shares of each other. It's the military-industrial complex, french style.
I mean: it's basically the government proposing we outsource government functions to the government.
All that while pretending that Thales is a private company.
How is it better that a foreign government has control of my id? Most of the EU isn't France.
"Thales hacked by LockBit 2.0 group"
https://gettotext.com/thales-hacked-by-lockbit-2-0-group-two...
And of course comments are turned off for the Digital ID Wallet movie. No visible dislikes and no negative comments = everyone is happy!
A more universal digital ID is a welcome change, now certain services are limited to people living in a certain country because there is no support for foreign digital IDs.
Would you support a global digital ID, based on standards from the UN? It could even be used to store your vaccine data:
https://www.telekom.com/en/media/media-information/archive/c...
You wanted it to be Microsoft right?
I want my data to be stored in the US, and so the CIA can look at it whenever they want
France is the only country that wants a sovereign EU
Both Germany and Poland want their daddy America to handle everything for them, we seen the results ;)
Thales bought Gemalto, a leading maker of smart cards, SIMs and HSMs, although they had to divest their previous nCipher HSM acquisition due to antitrust concerns.
Whatever the solution ends up being, it will be based on public-key encryption and the governments holding the master keys will almost certainly use HSMs to manage them, and most likely smart cards or some similar hardware security token tech like FIDO U2F. The keys are too sensitive to be help in a general-purpose computing platform because of client security flaws. The EU will in all likelihood insist that the manufacturer is from a EU country and the entire supply chain including manufacturing as well.
Disclaimer: the CEO of Thales is a classmate of mine, but I haven't talked with him in over 2 decades.
No more required mRNA bullshit. No more shots. No more mandates. And no digital identity...or I'm moving to Florida.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ThalesDigiSec/status/142535144657...
What other mandatory things will I need to do for the government?
Mandatory registration for war! Mandatory birth control! Mandatory drug test! Mandatory lie detector test about how honest you were on your taxes!
How easy it makes it to participate in society...
is a double edged sword...
with how easy it is to shut them out of society with a flip of the switch if they don't comply.
Conscription registration is already mandatory in countries that have it, and indeed was in the US when the draft existed.