BOMBSHELL: Bank of America secretly patented a digital passport for all US travelers in early 2023!
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US Patent 11553311 Digital passport with verified data provenance
Patent 11553311 was granted and assigned to Bank of America on January, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Systems and methods for accurately and securely assembling, storing, and leveraging travel data are provided. A method may include detecting a travel event of a user. The method may include recording the travel event in a travel map that is stored in a database. The travel map may be a temporal- and spatial-based record of one or more travel events of the user. The travel map may be stored as a blockchain ledger. The method may include tokenizing sensitive information associated with the user in the database, and calculating a hazard vector. The method may include updating, based at least in part on the hazard vector, a status index associated with the user, and providing the user and a system administrator access to the travel map and the status index. Access may be provided via an online portal configured to be viewed via an application running on a mobile device.
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Patent. https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/11553311
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Patent. https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/11553311
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Patent. https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/11080423
According to the site Medium.com in their article on this topic entitled Digital documents: what are the prospects for using digital passports, we read:
Digital ID is a complex topic. In theory, it’s simple — you give each person a cryptographic string that replaces things like social security, driver’s license, and is more secure/more universally recognized. Advantages: in theory, could replace a variety of documents, could standardize documentation across countries, ensure more secure financial transactions, eliminate fraud, more efficient processing of govt services etc. Disadvantages: there’s a lot of problems. The whole seems simple thing belies its risks.
Civil liberties advocates point out that bar-coding human beings is dangerous b/c it enables more state intervention into people’s lives. ID should not be a ‘permission slip’, without which things are assumed to be denied. The concept of making them ‘easier’ means making them more universally required.’ There’s also the problem that when digitizing ID, you’re making it easier to copy/transfer.
The reason we have ‘documents’ — physical items — for proof of ID is b/c physicality is a barrier to fraud. Anything that is data can be copied quickly by 1000s of methods. This is true of documents, but the barrier of having to physically replicate something — photo, a card, etc — is significant enough to prevent large-scale abuses. The ready availability of phone numbers results in daily robocalls; digital ID invites the same degree of constant low-level abuse, completely aside from the civil liberties concerns.