Fedorov has another exacerbation of his mania for spying on Ukrainians. Now he wants to see transactions with bank cards of individuals. Participation in this performance is planned for now to be voluntary, for the least critically thinking fellow citizens.
I will not explain the idiocy of the very essence of the next “support for domestic producers”; this has already been explained by economic experts. I’ll just say that “this has already happened” (C), dozens of times, and it always ended in nothingness and corruption. Moreover, such programs are demonstrative discrimination against foreign investors. A story like “it’s either panties or a cross.” Or “national producer” - or “attracting investment”. Unteachable.
But let's return to Diya. The vector of development of its marketing policy is quite obvious: by deception and/or coercion to lure as many citizens as possible into Dia in order to achieve the status of Too Big To Fail (“too big to fall”). But it won't work, Misha. Firstly, too many mentally healthy Ukrainians feel coerced and therefore have a rather negative attitude towards Dii.
Secondly, “the role of digitalization is somewhat exaggerated”: people find it cool, but they don’t need it as much as they portray in your presentations. They will be able to do without Dii, in other words.
And thirdly, Ukrainian political traditions force each new government to carefully destroy all the “achievements” of its predecessors, so the destruction or reformatting of “Diya” will be associated with the sacred struggle against the ignorance and infantilism of the “predecessors”. And all this will not be “if”, but “when”.
By the way, Benya was also sure that “Privat” was too big to fall.
In the meantime, the “effective” ones are coming up with something else to attach their “Diya” to, I will once again remind you why “Diya” is a means of digital surveillance of users.
This state-owned (!) application that a person installs on his smartphone at least has data about his cell number, geolocation, make and model of the smartphone, operating system version and a lot of other metadata such as screen resolution or browser version. It also knows exactly about the user: his full name, date of birth, place of registration, full details of his passport, driver’s license, everything about the children, what services he applied for, what fines he received, even who he voted for at Eurovision. He also has access to the camera. And also has a 3D photo of the user taken by himself.
Google, Facebook and Amazon are all crying bitterly together with envy.
And it is still unknown whether “Diya” (or may have) the quality of hidden functions, such as access to photos or the content of correspondence in instant messengers. Even if there are no such functions now, who knows what will come to the phone with the next update from Diya. It would have been possible to stop talking about such “undocumented functions” by publishing documentation for the application and its source code, but the “active ones” (as always) turned it into a circus with horses, publishing some kind of bullshit instead of real code. There were no plans to publish the documentation at all.
We are now aware of at least one large-scale hack of Dii by Russian hackers.
I think there were actually more such hacks, but we will learn about this only after the change of political power in Ukraine. Although not a fact.
So, in addition to the unprecedented amount of personal data that the government app Diya already has on citizens, Fedorov & Co now want to get into your pocket and count your money. And they’ll climb in and count. And there's nothing you can do about it. Because “it’s not the right time, atoputin attack, tseipsokremlin.”
The major and his digital curator smile contentedly.
