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More at: https://eraoflight.com/2022/10/13/gates-foundation-pledges-200-million-for-global-digital-ids/

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $1.27 billion initiative to fund the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, which includes $200 million for digital IDs and “civil registry databases.”

Following the UN’s General Assembly week in late September, the Gates Foundation in a press release stated that $200 million would be going towards expanding “Digital Public Infrastructure.”

“This funding will help expand infrastructure that low-and middle-income countries can use to become more resilient to crises such as food shortages, public health threats, and climate change, as well as to aid in pandemic and economic recovery. This infrastructure encompasses tools such as interoperable payment systems, digital ID, data-sharing systems, and civil registry databases.”

After the announcement, Michael Rectenwald, author of “Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom,” warned that the digital ID system is a sinister tool that threatens civil liberties worldwide.