{"id":10568,"date":"2025-01-29T10:27:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T17:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=10568"},"modified":"2025-01-29T10:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T17:27:34","slug":"wef-2025-ai-ceo-says-facial-recognition-will-replace-digital-ids-in-smart-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/wef-2025-ai-ceo-says-facial-recognition-will-replace-digital-ids-in-smart-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"WEF 2025: AI CEO Says Facial Recognition Will Replace Digital IDs in Smart Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a repost from Reclaim the Net which is subscription based, hence the link to Infowars which I don’t like to post as it’s a controlled opposition operation along with Alex Jones. They have good content on occasion, but mixed with ridiculous content meant to discredit or catch up the conspiracy minded with easily discredited conspiracies. The interesting bit is in the coming smart cities with a lot of surveillance, your facial recognition (probably gate detection – how you walk and move) will become your digital ID. This is exactly what Larry Ellison of Oracle<\/strong> said would be the reason all citizens would be on their best behavior<\/a> along with police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An oracle<\/strong> is a person or thing considered to provide insight, wise counsel or prophetic<\/a> predictions<\/a>, most notably including precognition<\/a> of the future, inspired by deities<\/a>. If done through occultic<\/a> means, it is a form of divination<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oracle<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/posts\/wef-2025-ai-ceo-says-facial-recognition-will-replace-digital-ids-in-smart-cities\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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By Didi Rankovic | Reclaim The Net <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And next will be the implantable microchip, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“…you won’t need a digital identity” because “you have the facial recognition and other things built into your smart cities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"WEF <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the panels during last week\u2019s World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting<\/a> \u2013 \u201cEmpowering People with Digital Public Infrastructure\u201d \u2013 saw the participation of Avathon CEO Pervinder Johar, who provided a vision of a gloomy future of \u201coptimized\u201d and omnipresent surveillance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johar, of course, would not put it quite that way. Avathon, which produces AI tech, including the surveillance kind \u2013 believes that in the next five to ten years there will be no need for digital ID since facial recognition \u201cand other things\u201d will be built into \u201csmart cities<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The panel was dedicated to digital public infrastructure (DPI) \u2013 a buzzword used by digital ID proponents like the UN, the EU, the WEF, and Bill Gates \u2013 and Johar said the financial and identity portions of digital ID will \u201cconverge\u201d to produce the result he predicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This suggests that the population will be under constant surveillance and identified at all times. Johar had more \u201cgood news\u201d \u2013 Avathon makes what it calls an industrial AI platform, a surveillance system that the CEO shared has been deployed in Round Rock High School in Texas \u2013 \u201cfor children\u2019s safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It \u201cutilizes a school\u2019s existing camera infrastructure to proactively detect everything from a weapon to an open door, unauthorized access, or even a fire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another panelist, Hoda Al Khzaimi, Associate Vice Provost for Research Translation and Entrepreneurship at New York University Abu Dhabi Hoda Al Khzaimi, also spoke about the connection between the DPI and \u201csmart cities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDigital public infrastructures came into manifestation because governments want to make sure that they provide seamless services in the rise of smart cities,\u201d said Al Khzaimi, at the same time effectively suggesting that \u201cthe optimal application of DPI\u201d is pushing digital ID on citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al Khzaimi also addressed the issue of DPI data. \u201cWhat\u2019s positive is that if this data provided by the DPI infrastructure are open and in many kinds of scenarios, you have open marketplaces for these data, users themselves can nudge governments and can nudge providers of these services and to tell them what do you want, and what do you not want and control the trends of how to deploy and build for solutions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al Khzaimi also praised the public-private partnership on the DPI. And while acknowledging the potential for abuse (\u201cyou don\u2019t want to subject the citizens to mass analytics if they don\u2019t want to have this mass analytics infrastructure\u201d) she quickly contradicted herself by saying there are cases when this should be done \u2013 such as to \u201canalyze population data for health pandemic outbreaks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kapital Co-Founder and CEO Rene Saul spoke about Mexico\u2019s digital passport (which utilizes biometric ID verification at the borders \u2013 something Saul did not mention), which he is a holder of, as a positive example of digital ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all, it saved him 35 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI arrived to Europe for the first time, and I saw the sign with other three countries that had electronic passport. So, I saved 35 minutes just to enter Europe when it took me one hour. So, that\u2019s one of good examples, and that, and another good example of this technology is, it opened our borders,\u201d said Saul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Know Your Customer (KYC) was also mentioned as helpful in developing digital services such as those used by banks. KYC itself is an invasive form of digital ID verification that incorporates document scans and biometric ID verification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a repost from Reclaim the Net which is subscription based, hence the link to Infowars which I don’t like to post as it’s a controlled opposition operation along with Alex Jones. They have good content on occasion, but mixed with ridiculous content meant to discredit or catch up the conspiracy minded with easily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10570,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568\/revisions\/10570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}