Several companies and humanitarian organizations are calling for digital IDs for every person on the planet, CNET reports. At the UN headquarters Monday, General Electric Digital Chief Innovation Officer Maja Vujinovic, who was once a refugee, spoke about the need. Microsoft, Accenture, the World Food Programme and the UN Refugee Agency want to create a digital identification tied to a person's fingerprints, birth date, medical records, education, travel, bank accounts and more, the report states. The goal is to ease travel and help refugees who have had to flee their homes. Accenture Managing Director David Treat, who presented a demonstration of an ID prototype, said, "We're not talking about years and years of build. The technology is here, and it's scalable." 
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