1. Don't people on HN realize Vietnam is a single party authoritarian state with a very active secret police (MPS/BCA)?

2. Vietnam has been in the process of rolling out national biometric identification for years now as part of the VNeID [0] project, and unifying that with banking and mobile phone identification is an important part of that such as with the recent FPT Telecom announcement [1]. The aim is to turn VNeID into a super-app by 2030 [2], and from what I've seen in rural areas of the Central Highlands, it's on track.

[0] - https://vneid.gov.vn/

[1] - https://tuoitre.vn/vneid-mo-rong-dich-vu-so-dang-ky-internet...

[2] - https://tuoitre.vn/thieu-tuong-nguyen-ngoc-cuong-nang-cap-vn...