? I missed any part where the UN or Microsoft has any part doing "this". Someone posted a link to ID2020, which is a U.S. nonprofit organization, and that is what I've been reading. Not sure what Microsoft or UN has to do with this nonprofit standard setter.
As to your second question, this is what we currently have. We give out info to everyone and everything and they control our information. Identity theft is growing at an insane rate and much because no companies can safeguard OUR info. Why would we not more privacy and control? We currently have little.