Terrorists will drive us towards digital identities

As I travel the world, one thing unfolds,

The passport queue.

Surely, there is a better way to check it’s you.

As here we stand, book in hand, waiting for the eye of the security guy.

To check my face matches my race, and stamp that I may camp in their place.

So I give them a smile, and off we go, with a hey and a ho.

And I feel my fast pulse, as my passport is false.

It is no issue, for my bodily tissue is not the real deal.

And so I spied on them and on you for that's what terrorists do.

... or something like that.

I mean what sort of last century security system does the world manage when our identities are checked by some sleepy security guy who stamps a paper-based passbook? No wonder that mothers can travel as their daughters or that a bald man can pass for his blonde-haired girlfriend.

And yet this is what we use for KYC?

Surely, we need to have a digital check?

We need digital border controls that can check a digital implant via an automated screening.

That would get rid of the queues and make travel more secure.

The terrorists and criminals might steal my chip implant, but the implant only works if it matches my heartbeat.

That's the near-term future.

A chip implant that will only function with a unique biometric, such as the heartbeat, so that we can be tracked and traced electronically.

You don't want the chip implant?

Take the app and strap version.

Either way, we will move to digital identities that, at their core, use a digital biometric as their raison d'etre.

Otherwise, we will all remain stuck in the last century of passbooks and stamps.