👁⚠️ THROWBACK: Ex-Pfizer scientist warns of threat to all people from ‘totalitarian’ digital IDs
💬 "Digital identities could contain data about all aspects of our personal lives—from health and lifestyle to work and banking," Mike Yeadon, former chief scientific officer at Pfizer, cautioned back in 2021.
He warned at the time that digital IDs “could give those controlling the database and its algorithms totalitarian power,” which he warned poses “the threat to all of us.”
👁⚠️ THROWBACK: Ex-Pfizer scientist warns of threat to all people from ‘totalitarian’ digital IDs
💬 "Digital identities could contain data about all aspects of our personal lives—from health and lifestyle to work and banking," Mike Yeadon, former chief scientific officer at Pfizer, cautioned back in 2021.
He warned at the time that digital IDs “could give those controlling the database and its algorithms totalitarian power,” which he warned poses “the threat to all of us.”
The last couple days have exemplified that uncertainty. On Thursday, news emerged that talks in Turkey between the Russia and Ukraine yielded no positive result. But on Friday, Reuters reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin said there had been some “positive shifts” in talks between the two sides. Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders. Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durov’s position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements. And indeed, volatility has been a hallmark of the market environment so far in 2022, with the S&P 500 still down more than 10% for the year-to-date after first sliding into a correction last month. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, has held at a lofty level of more than 30. "We as Ukrainians believe that the truth is on our side, whether it's truth that you're proclaiming about the war and everything else, why would you want to hide it?," he said.
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