On March 26, 2020, the World Economic Forum published specifications and launched a new website for a project it has christened “Known Travel Digital Identity” (KTDI) papersplease.org/wp/2020/03/30/…
KTDI is a “surveillance-by-design” vision for tracking and control of travelers more dystopian than anything we have seen before.
Access to more comprehensive travel history and transaction logs is a longstanding goal of government surveillance and travel-control agencies. hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/…
In a presentation at the Hotel Electronic Distribution Network Association (HEDNA) conference, representatives of Accenture (the prime contractor to the WEF for the KTDI project) and Marriott boasted of how, .. an individual could be picked out of a crowd for “blacklisting”
using automated facial recognition, “without stopping or acknowledging the camera.” So it can be used for surreptitious, non-consnsual mass surveillance.
Partners in the KTDI project include government agencies (DHS, ICAO, INTERPOL, etc.) and the airline and airline IT industries (IATA, Amadeus, etc.). But that’s not all.
Other KTDI project partners include Google (Google acquired a computerized reservation system provider in 2010, but it’s unclear in what capacity Google is participating in the KTDI project), the Marriott and Hilton and Accor hotel chains, and
and the Visa credit-card and payment processing company. #wirecard
Yesterday , Grok could find no public records on the mysterious Richard A. Rothschild ..
Today, it gave me an address, listed with some of his patents ..
According to Grok, "no evidence of any professional, personal, legal, artistic, or activist connection emerges between Paolo Cirio and these individuals [ Richard A. Rothschild and/or Robin S. Slomkowski ]".
Grok : Stuart Pivar inherited a substantial fortune from the family plastics business .., which funded his lifelong art collecting, the founding of the New York Academy of Art (with Andy Warhol in 1979), and his later pursuits in theoretical biology (Lifecode).
" Stuart Pivar was the primary founder and financial backer of the New York Academy of Art , and Andy Warhol was his high-profile co-founder and public face..
Key Facts About the Founding :
Idea and money: Pivar , flush with cash from selling his family’s plastics business, wanted to create a graduate school that would bring back rigorous classical training in drawing, painting, and sculpture ..
" Synesthesia is actively studied at institutions like MIT, particularly through interdisciplinary projects at the MIT Media Lab. One prominent example is the "Digital Synesthesia" initiative ..
which explores how to simulate or extend synesthetic-like experiences via technology to enhance human perception beyond natural sensory limits,eg. interfacing computers with multisensory data for broader environmental awareness" media.mit.edu/projects/digit…
MIT's involvement extends to publishing foundational and ongoing scholarship on synesthesia through the MIT Press, including Richard E. Cytowic's 2018 primer Synesthesia (with a 2025 edition highlighting its spectrum-like nature across brain pathways) thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-200-ye…
Grok : "Adding an immersive digital ecosphere, like VR environments synced to trance rhythms, could amplify the MDMA-trance combo into hyper-real altered states, where visuals morph with beats for total sensory envelopment and ego-blurring unity...🤔
Beginning in 2020, he organized efforts against COVID-19 pandemic restrictions with the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), and in 2021 he founded Brownstone Institute think tank to continue such efforts."
As of 2021, he is Chief Liberty Officer of *. He is an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research affiliate of Blockchain Innovation Hub of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, & an Acton Institute associate."