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>The MyDigital ID service is optional and will not replace the country’s current physical ID card.
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202312/malaysian-digital-id-available-to-public-from-july-2024
Yeah, that's a wrap for Malaysia.
This starts them on the road to the kind of fascism they have in China, and now Thailand - "public private partnerships" based around a biometric ID.
Optional at first, but it will quickly become mandatory as these things always do. The ID will mediate everyones interactions and transactions - banking, health, work, govt services, education, travel. All data overseen, collated and stored by a centralized government agency.
> the government opening an information center to counter negative claims made about the digital id rollout
https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2023/12/06/fahmi-mimos-to-open-information-counter-to-rebut-negative-claims-about-mydigital-id/106142