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* until Chinese state-sponsored hackers trivially breach government networks and steal it all—again.

this is so kind of them

Until they black list your ID for whatever reason and then you're screwed... No thanks.

She thinks showing your id physically when services are needed is more exposure than a digital id perpetually accessible ? These people are not qualified to make decisions.

Logic not found

Hey hey, she's not wrong. "You can *apply*". It's basically an efficient system for central entity to process all your 'life applications'.

Most of the time, the devil comes in diguise :-)

It is possible to create a digital ID that allows you to prove to a liquor store that you are over 21 without disclosing your actual birthday, name, or any other identifying information, by having a third party (e.g. the government) trusted by the liquor store attest to it. In this case the government signs a certificate certifying your ability to buy alcohol (for example) tied to your public key that the vendor verifies, and you show that cert to any vendor at any time and the government doesn't know and can't stop it. The problem is that government issued digital IDs are unlikely to respect your liberty and will likely give the government a way to cut you off, instead of doing it right. nostr:nevent1qqst2xajz0d0m925l6dqvreacq6fz700vumdg93nh93egz7ppgudvkgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshszxzhqj

Unless of course the digital ID is created by government in which case it gives to a meaningless access denied message when you try to apply for a new service forcing you to sit on the phone for 2 hours with a public servant that has less idea what’s happening than you do and so makes you prove you are yourself by providing all of your details and verify multiple forms of ID all over again only to still not solve the problem 😬

What she is describing is something like the mobile phone based BankID system in Sweden (and other equivalents in the nordics). It's called 'BankID' because you initially used it to log into your bank acccount, but now also every other government institution and many online shopping sites too. You need to KYC at a bank to get it and without it you're basically unpersonned. There are alternate ways to access services and buisnesses, but they are cumbersome and not well supported. BankID is very convienent and ubiquitous, but there are down sides. I've read stories of old people being tricked into approving a login over the phone and having their bank accounts drained with no recourse due to the agreements you sign to get a BankID. It's also a good first step towards turn key totalitarianism and panopticon surveilance. I like how LNURL logins are a decentralized version of the BankID system. It gives you a similar convience, but you control your own keys. You also do not tie your online grocery store id and video rental id with your government tax id.