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# Concerning

* [Facebook & Instagram outages expose the pain points of Centralized identity systems](https://blockchainmagazine.net/facebook-instagram-outages-expose-the-pain-points-of-centralized-identity-systems/)
  > For example, projects such as PhotoChromic are developing a biometrically managed self-sovereign identity on the blockchain utilising the feature sets of NFTs (non fungible tokens). Self-sovereign identity ensures that a user retains complete control over their identity without anyone else having access to it.
* [“The power to surveil, control, and punish”: The dystopian danger of a mandatory biometric database in Mexico](https://restofworld.org/2021/the-dystopian-danger-of-a-mandatory-biometric-database-in-mexico/) RestofWorld.org
  > there is a push by corporations and international institutions such as the World Bank to create these kinds of databases to identify people and conflate two things: the right of every person to be recognized legally by a government and an identification system that intermediates people’s transactions with public and even private services.
* [Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare](https://restofworld.org/2021/singapores-tech-utopia-dream-is-turning-into-a-surveillance-state-nightmare/) RestofWorld
  > “What [technology] will do for people is make our lives a hell of a lot easier, more convenient, more easily able to plug into the good life,” said Monamie Bhadra Haines, an assistant professor at the Technical University of Denmark, who studies the intersection between technology and society. “But … the surveillance is what is here, now.”
* [Portpass app may have exposed hundreds of thousands of users' personal data](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/portpass-app-may-exposed-hundreds-172257702.html)
  > The fderal privacy commissioner also said it has not yet received a report, and said it has contacted Portpass to seek further information in order to determine next steps, and that it is in communication with its provincial counterpart.


* [There’s a big problem with Apple and Google’s plans to nix passwords](https://www.fastcompany.com/90755838/theres-a-big-problem-with-apple-and-googles-plans-to-nix-passwords)

Eliminating the password means trusting that big tech companies won’t lock you into their platforms.

* [The Perils of Pre-Copernican Data Strategy](https://medium.com/mydex/the-perils-of-pre-copernican-data-strategy-974827845585) Alan Mitchell, MyDex

Today, ‘everyone’ including powerful actors and decision-makers like the UK Government ‘just know’ that organisations are the centre of the personal data universe, and that everyone else including citizens revolves around these organisations.

* [Bolt drivers in Nigeria are illicitly selling their accounts, putting passengers at risk](https://restofworld.org/2022/bolt-drivers-in-nigeria-are-illicitly-selling-their-accounts-putting-passengers-at-risk/) RestofWorld

“I asked the driver why the app showed me a different driver’s face, and he claimed Bolt blocked his account so he was using his brother’s.”



## Breaches 
U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by a foreign government

* [@Cred_Master shares](https://news.trust.org/item/20201213175137-8vsfr/):
  > “The hackers ... have been able to trick the Microsoft [Office 365] platform's authentication controls.”
> 
> #SSI #VerifiableCredentials

* [The vaguely dystopian technology fueling China’s Olympic Games](https://restofworld.org/2022/the-technology-fueling-beijing-olympic-games/)

* [Bureaucratic Supremacy](https://www.moxytongue.com/2022/02/bureaucratic-supremacy.html)