World Economic Forum Ramps Up “Known Traveller Digital Identity”

• World Economic Forum Ramps Up “Known Traveller Digital Identity”
  by Edward Hasbrouck, https://www.activistpost.com/
  On March 26, 2020, the World Economic Forum published specifications and launched a new website for a project it has christened “Known Traveller Digital Identity” (KTDI):
  • World Economic Forum KTDI project page (with links and list of partners)
  • KTDI.org
  • March 2020 KTDI specifications
  • 2019 KTDI video on Vimeo
  • 2018 KTDI video on YouTube
  • Marriot / Accenture presentation on KTDI at 2018 HEDNA hotel IT conference on YouTube
  • 2018 KTDI concept paper
  • KTDI infographic
• KTDI is a “surveillance-by-design” vision for tracking and control of travelers more dystopian than anything we have seen before. KTDI would use a blockchain-based distributed ledger to bind together, through an app on a traveler’s mobile device, all of the following data:
  • Biometrics (initially facial images, possibly also fingerprints, etc.)
  • Government-issued ID credentials (passport number, etc.)
  • Travel history including logs of border crossings, hotel stays, and possibly also car rentals and/or other events
  • Purchase logs and possibly bank account information and/or other financial and transaction records
  • Pre-crime predictive “risk assessment” and profiling scores generated at each “intervention” point before and during each trip or transaction

  Each hotel stay, purchase, or other transaction would become like a border crossing permanently stamped in your passport as part of a digital “trip pass” subject to inspection on demand by authorities at subsequent “intervention” points:
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