ANALYSIS: Why are so many minor parties talking about digital ID laws?
Executive Director at Digital Rights Watch James Clark agreed there were privacy concerns with the proposed legislation. "We know that identity information is really valuable," he said.
"It does come in the context of a digital climate where digital technology is increasingly being used to track and surveil people," he said, "so I can see how that has caused a kind of concern and leads to conspiratorial thinking. During the pandemic, however, these worries found new life: Conspiracy theories about digital identity schemes as a pretext for government control have been shared since the early months of the pandemic in 2020.
"The [digital ID] scheme has been seen as the local enactment of these globalist conspiracy theories," Zhang said.
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