In Russia, they started talking about the return of QR codes: they can be used in the process of mobilization

But there are nuances

Information began to spread on the Internet that Moscow would introduce control over those liable for military service using QR codes. The news about this was sent to state-owned companies, according to some telegram channels, citing a source from banking circles.

Actually, why not? Everything new is well forgotten old. And here even not too long forgotten. And the technology has worked out. He stopped the patrol, showed the QR code, he checked it – and it is immediately clear whether the person is subject to mobilization or is free. The same goes for visits to various institutions. Including airports and passport offices

A QR code is quite difficult to fake, so in this regard it is indispensable. Only one thing can prevent it from being implemented in use at the moment: an ambiguous background.

As you know, the need for digital QR codes as an emergency measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus was actively introduced into the public consciousness just a year ago. They were even temporarily issued at the regional levels – for example, for moving around the city. The bill on the widespread introduction of the QR code, already adopted in the first reading, provided for constitutional restrictions for unvaccinated and non-ill people who do not have medical exemptions. In the event of the final adoption of such a law, these categories of citizens would lose the right to freely move around the country, visit retail outlets and restaurants, and could not receive medical care, except for planned ones.

Supporters of the bill justified its need for a large number of deaths from COVID-19, opponents saw in QR codes a violation of constitutional rights, forced vaccination and an attempt to abolish the rule of law in a number of regions. Moreover, the vaccinated were just as sick and sick with the coronavirus as the unvaccinated, and continued to spread the infection.

Even when QR codes were proposed, it became clear that such methods were not supported by a significant part of the population, however, all experts said in unison that we would simply die out without QR codes.

Most likely, the law would have been successfully adopted, but then a special operation began, and everyone was not up to it. And then, against the background of the rest of the agenda, the coronavirus became not so relevant.

However, QR codes are still used by Russians for harmless payment in stores and for obtaining information on the Internet, and many already received codes are stored on the State Services website.

However, the attitude towards this innovation cannot be called positive. And although the use of this option in the current situation is quite logical, technologically advanced and will greatly simplify the identification of the mobilized, many experts believe that it is not necessary to return QR codes. “Events follow each other so quickly that many Russians, if you ask them about the mandatory introduction of QR codes last year, will not immediately remember what it was,” one of the lawyers told MK. – But, of course, somewhere in their subconscious, it sits that something unpleasant is connected with this. Therefore, while such information appears, most likely in order to probe public opinion, but I don’t think it will come to that. But nothing can be ruled out.”

Top officials themselves claim that nothing will replace paper identification in the near future, especially since for the widespread digitalization of the country, and not just large metropolitan areas, quite serious financial injections and modification of the IT sphere are required, for which there are simply not enough resources now.

“Currently, all bases in state institutions are kept in paper form. In June, the Ministry of Finance announced that the agency had frozen the issue of issuing digital passports. The ministry will focus on digital copies of documents and biometric identification for the time being,” Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev said.

So for now, maybe you can breathe a little. Although it is still impossible to exclude a return to this idea in the near future.