History does tell us that, especially recent history, but the potential to make the internet much more transparent is baked into these new changes and tools.
Example: Personalized SDG scores for individuals. To be able to tabulate your personal SDG score, ie: to show you your "carbon footprint score" or your "healthy choice score" your purchase data is required in a fully itemized way (list of every item purchased in every transaction, from whom, etc).
In Canada these detailed SDG scores are already mandatory for all companies to have, Canadian or not, if they do business in Canada. Wall st, for example, already reports these scores too in various "SDG-based investment options".
SDG scores on individuals are not here yet but are on their way, according to gov. Cash being deprecated for digital-only "digital wallets" is also being discussed. The loss of privacy is a huge hurdle, but gov is all in to find a way. Forget about that issue for now and look at the potential is would have on monitoring for sponsored misinformation.
Here is a list of the current factors (17 of them) that are factored into a COMPANY SDG score, gov link - [
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Note: the digital ID is essentially a file of EVERYTHING about you. It will contain everything from your health records to your driving records and data from all 53 gov departments (details in the first gov link).
All western countries are in some phase of implementing the SDGs, digital IDs and digital currency. It's happening quickly. Hopefully it will also relieve the animosity between individuals with different opinions.
