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Re:Gates Foundation will commit 'total attention' to coronav... by smt88 on Monday April 27, 2020 @10:40AM (#22996238)
I don't see him saying that on reddit, and this appears to be another right-wing conspiracy theory about him[1].

The actual idea, which he doesn't particularly seem to be "pushing", is to have invisible tattoos injected into people in the developing world as an immutable vaccine record, not an ID. It's not unlike the way vets give dogs a small tattoo dot when the dog has been spayed. Medical records don't always survive or travel with patients.

1. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/09/instagram-...

Re:Gates Foundation will commit 'total attention' to coronav... by unsupervisedluv on Monday April 27, 2020 @11:50AM (#22996969)
Is this really any better? Do you think there is a qualitative difference between a 'vaccine' ID, which I can assure you will have information encoded that can be used as a personal identity marker, and what the original commenter was proposing?

Is it really any better that this is happening in the "developing world"? You even make the case that it's identical to the practices we uphold to track animals.

Furthermore, appeal to authority is not proof or evidence of anything but the opinion of authority. Try to avoid doing that if you want to engage ideas in good faith.

Re:Gates Foundation will commit 'total attention' to coronav... by smt88 on Monday April 27, 2020 @12:17PM (#22997229)
> Do you think there is a qualitative difference between a 'vaccine' ID, which I can assure you will have information encoded that can be used as a personal identity marker, and what the original commenter was proposing?

Yes. You didn't read the article I posted, and you're already making assumptions to create a straw man.

The proposed research[1] (that Gates has been falsely linked to) proposes using quantum dots in a pattern. They need not be PII. A random person in a developing country would have no method or incentive to forge the quantum dots in their skin, so the pattern would be exactly the same on every person. Nothing personally identifiable.

1. https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/11/523/eaay7162