'Don’t waste a good crisis': Experts push governments to create digital ID programs in wake of COVID-19

The idea of a Canadian digital ID has been brought up regularly in recent years and was even studied by a federal parliamentary committee in early 2019, but progress has been slow in most provinces and at the federal level.Article content continued

The Quebec minister responsible for digital transformation, Éric Caire, says both the COVID-19 pandemic and a massive data breach at the Desjardins financial group that affected over 4.2 million people last year were major catalysts for the project. In the Desjardins case leaked information included names, addresses, birthdates, social insurance numbers, email addresses and information about transaction habits.

ClicSÉQUR’s replacement will come in phases. By 2021, the government wants to have created a digital ID and authentication system for each individual that will allow them to access government services with a single username and password. Two years later, the same system will be available to companies.Article content continued

“If you go to Estonia, you log into your portal with your digital identity number, you get to see who’s touched your data, when they did and whether it’s an automobile dealership, government, you name it. We don’t have that level of privacy control in Canada, nowhere near it,” Benay said.

Surprised they haven’t found a way to make internet outside Canadian control a racist entity. Bet it’s in the works!

'I think what COVID did is it created the right cliff.' Sometimes, like Sonya Savage or Justin Trudeau, they open their mouths and the truth comes out.

I gagged a little bit when I read 'secure government database'. Does that even exist in this age? Does it exist in a government that can't even get it's IT based payroll system to work properly? All the eggs in one basket doesn't sound like a very good plan.

Wow, the Nazis would have jumped for joy if they had this type of technology when they were hunting down and killing the Jews. The wolves in today's governments are preping to round up the sheep.

Me and the boys on our way to sign up for digital ID. Why hand facebook all your data for free when you can give it to the government and be taxed for doing so?

The ' experts ' ... You mean the people that are expert at exploitation?

Experts You mean the ones that stand to make 💰off the programs?Just so all those geeks that work 24/7 & live in the basement can make a workaround to gather your info & sell to the highest bidder. Yeah...no thanks!!

1984. Those experts can fuck right off.

Experts?fast heading into an era where government not only controls your life? But likely will decide when your time is up? . Look up the movie ' Logan's Run'.....

There's that word again 'Experts'. What might their qualifications be?

“Experts” Lmao

Scary Will they track you and what you say everywhere? Can they pull up your digital history to punish you for not being sufficiently Liberal? I prefer a card .

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