The Digital Purge: Vietnam’s Biometric Coup On April 30th, 2025, the State Bank of Vietnam deleted nearly 86 million “unverified” bank accounts from the financial system. Just like that—accounts vanished. Frozen. Erased. To unlock them? You must submit to the biometric state: face scan, fingerprints, passport, health records—all funneled into VNeID, Vietnam’s digital ID system. This isn't “fraud prevention.” It’s a compliance checkpoint for the new financial regime. One centralized ID. One database. Total control. And if you think it stops at banking—think again. VNeID connects housing, healthcare, education, travel, taxation—a single point of access to your entire life. This is not innovation. It’s infrastructure for authoritarianism. Project 06: WEF’s Test Run in Southeast Asia What made this possible? A…
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