[P2P-F] Fwd: MasterCard-Branded National eID Card Launched in Nigeria

[Michel Bauwens]

awful, a corporate enclosure of civic identity, totally unacceptable form
of digital feudalism,

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From: Tom Crowl <culturalengineer at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:53 PM
Subject: MasterCard-Branded National eID Card Launched in Nigeria


*MasterCard-Branded National eID Card Launched in Nigeria*
http://newsroom.mastercard.com/press-releases/mastercard-branded-national-eid-card-launched-nigeria/

I do not believe the ideal is to have megabanks become the arbiters of
identity. This has nothing to do with a belief that they are inherently
good or bad... but rather the inherent narrowness of its purposes
(benefiting management and stockholders).

A user-centered, user-owned 'silo' required for a viable, one-click
Internet payment capability IS the path... as is the need for a viable
micropayment.

Ignoring this is going to end with further consolidation of power and
wealth. Its the wrong path. The user can and must be at the top of the
network.... not the banks, not the phone companies. This is not a minor
issue. This will limit competition in banking and currencies... and provide
methods of control and enforcement to them resistant to outside limitation
or oversight.

(in fact this is literally giving an 'off-switch' to private interests
allowing them to shut down a society at a moment's notice.)


*Tom Crowl*
http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com



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