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As the title of this video suggests, we are posing the question, “and did, and did anyone in Thailand or otherwise ask for an Orwellian Banking ID?” And why am I asking this and why is the thumbnail what it is? Well the thumbnail is from Office Space. It's a great sort of through line joke throughout that film where there's a guy named Samir Nagheenanajar, I believe he's Arabian, Saudi Arabian, and he works in Initech which is like the classic '90's faceless tech corporation and nobody can ever get his name right; his name is Nagheenanajar and there's this like ongoing joke and there is this one scene where the consultants - who are laying off people - are sitting there looking at them like, "Naha, nag, naga, not going to work here anymore". It's kind of a funny little punchline there, and I was thinking of that when I thought of making this video. It's like NDID, NDID, and did anyone ask for Orwellian banking restrictions and IDs and all of this stuff because I don't remember it - in an electoral context or otherwise. There is no great hue and cry out there for being bagged and tagged in order to leave our money with another person or another entity, so that that entity can profit off of that money. I mean this is all really pretty absurd when you really get into it, okay. So what are we talking about here when we are talking about NDID? Well with NDID, what we are talking about is it's a National Identity service, yeah, it's a National ID. So it's the National Digital ID which I'll get to here in a minute. 

But that said, I came upon this - credit where credit is due - from a viewer who sent me an email. It says, "Hey Ben, my name is (I'm going to redact his name). I watch all your videos on YouTube and deliberately always thumbs up." - Well thank you very much sir - quoting further: "I appreciate how you fight for privacy and self-sovereignty. You can use Grok to ingest the 2-hour WEF video I attached, and then interrogate Grok about the content." Yeah, thanks for the video; I will actually look at it. Quoting further: "Grok has the cap. My questions started with Thailand NDID. I looked at where Thailand was in this process and then compared it with other countries such as UK and Canada. All three Governments are treating this as some sort of foregone conclusion. You and I both appreciate the Jai Yen aspect of Thai culture. Unfortunately, I think a combination of that as well as the majority of the population not understanding the loss of privacy contributes to a problem here." So I went ahead, I didn't even know what NDID was and then I went over here to good old Bangkok Bank's homepage, Authentication Service (NDID) Reliable and safe to confirm your identity wherever you are. Cutting edge technology to verify your identity via the National Digital ID platform (NDID), so you can be confident and safe when applying online services of Government and private companies." 

Well first of all, if dealing with the government online isn't safe, where are our taxpayer dollars, taxpayer baht in this case, going? Seriously. Now we have got to go into some Orwellian online ID to bank and deal with companies because they have got a problem? That's your problem. You, private enterprise as well as the government. We haven't given you enough money to digitize everything unnecessarily? I mean my girls and guys that are in the work authorization section of the office here, are pulling their hair out because of the digitization of the Labour Certification process in Thailand. The whole site doesn't really work; it's just ridiculous. And all of this is just sort of pushed out there as, "well you need it, now you need it, the Government.." whatever. So going down here:

"Convenient

Enroll to use the Authentication Service anytime on Bangkok Bank Mobile Banking application?"

Is that going to also continue to require all this Biometrics and you're capping out how much money people can transfer?

"Reliable

Use facial recognition technology to verify your identity." 

Well great. That's not reliability, that's Orwellian surveillance. Quoting further:

"Secure

Connect related parties in the National Digital ID platform using blockchain technology."

So now they can bag and tag all of us humans and put it on the blockchain. So now we're some kind of commoditized individual, which really once you are commoditized, you're not an individual, you're just a number on a blockchain. Quoting further: 

"Free 

No fee for enrollment and authentication service."

You mean your Orwellian system is free? You're not going to charge me to register my ID? Quoting further: 

"Enrollment conditions 

• For Thai Nationals only
• Required to have completed the Know Your Customer process to apply for products at Bangkok Bank branch before e.g. Savings Account.
• Enrollment is available via Bangkok Bank Mobile Banking application only."

Going back to this Thai Nationals only, all Thai nationals have a Thai ID card so what's the purpose of this? You're telling me that this system is somehow better than just showing up with your ID card which by the way, the Khet System, the Amphur system, the Department of Provincial Administration here in Thailand takes in all of that information and then creates the ID card. That was the point. That's why everybody went for it initially. So now you are telling me there's a digital, more Orwellian version of this, that's still going to require constant facial recognition! Sorry, thank you, but no thank you. Again, going back to the thumbnail, when did anybody ask for this? It's just ridiculous. And also, it's really absurd when you think about the fact that you have to go through all these hoops and be bagged and tagged and have a double Digital ID card. So not only do we have an ID card here in Thailand, now they want, for banking purposes only, a secondary digitized version of that, which why? And also, as I have discussed at length throughout this year, all of this stuff that they've added on to the banking process, it hasn't made anything more convenient, hasn't made anything easier. Talk to any of the customers who have had their accounts frozen or had to go in and do facial recognition and align their number to whatever, in order to continue banking, by the way to continue to give somebody else your money, that they didn't loan out at interest. This whole thing just needs to end, all right? There are reasonable banking precautions, there are reasonable Know Your Customer precautions, and then there's just Orwellian claptrap which is where we are at at this point.

I really hope we don't see any of this further and frankly and if I haven't said it enough I do not view OECD as a foregone conclusion, much like the United States. Yeah, there's this sort of resolution that we are pretending as if it's a foregone conclusion, that this will be promulgated into proper law through Parliament, but at the end of the day, that's not a foregone conclusion as evidence by Trump coming back into office, issuing an Executive Order, and turning all this around back in the United States. To my mind, Thailand could do that pretty much just as easily. The Cabinet comes back in and says "hey, we're not doing this OECD at this time; we will re-study it and maybe go for something like this later. Why not? Again, this whole OECD thing and all of this banking nonsense needs to be an issue in this upcoming election here in the Kingdom of Thailand.