What hypocrisy! The Department of Home Affairs is pretending to upgrade its services while still entrapping citizens in a cage of bureaucracy. Under Minister Dr. Leon Schreiber’s watch, millions of South Africans will now be forced to surrender even more of their personal sovereignty to the state.
And what’s this? Now, you’ll need not only a physical ID and passport but also biometrics to access your own damned documents? You’ll still have to jump through fiery hoops and sacrifice your weekends to visit home affairs’ offices, but at the end of the day, you’ll be left even more beholden to these soulless, algorithm-dependent machines.
Meanwhile, back in the 21st century, most countries get their travel permits online (ETA? Please). All Schreiber has decided to do is replace actual human interaction with soul-numbing digital ones, riddled with security vulnerabilities awaiting the next clever hack-tivist. You know where this is headed – digital serfdom!
According to Schreiber (and the Department of Fiction), “the department intends to digitize all civil services and eliminate the use of physical documents.” Um, sure. What makes you think you’re being transparent about the risks tied to biometric surveillance at the same time, @home?
So, no, Dr. Schreiber, the real home affairs reform isn’t upgrading your digital platform. it’s acknowledging that people prefer not to live in police states where they need express permission to travel or visit the post office. Next thing you know, social posts will require clearance from headquarters before being published!
Listen up, folks: under this so-called “visions” of Schreiber, the line between consent and control gets blurrier by the day. Now, go ahead and virtualize your soul for $1, and I want to be there when digital citizenship is officially re branded as “data-mination”!
But wait (there’s more!) Since the “ETA application,” will be “adjudicated instantly” with algorithms, human oversight is mostly gone, replaced by unaccountable AIs ready to snare you… or maybe you already agree with that!
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