Necessarily, in fact, for any system that uses a government ID, because that requires there to be some interface between the government ID and a private bureaucracy that the holder of the ID would be pressured into interacting with. If that interface allows the private party to e.g. learn who you are, instead of just your age, it's only the government that could replace it with one that didn't.
> There are likely to be a lot more coming as the newer standards in this area were finalised last year. Online identity is a continually evolving space.
Evolution is supposed to cause bad ideas to die. The problem with laws, such as the ones surrounding government identity documents, is that they regularly require bad ideas to live. Which is why the use of government ID should be minimized.
> Some do in some circumstances, but far from all.
They all have that incentive, because it leads to money, and money is an incentive.
It's possible to turn someone down who is offering you money, but we're dealing with large scale systems here, and then the incentives determine the averages.
> Others (often financial institutions) have wised up to PII being a liability rather than an opportunity and some are working on frameworks and capabilites in this space that don't involve any more storage or transfer of anyone's ID than already happens in banks.
We really need to get it to stop happening in banks. The fact that every single thing you buy using a digital payment method is tied to your government ID is a preposterously dangerous status quo to leave unchallenged.
Necessarily, in fact, for any system that uses a government ID, because that requires there to be some interface between the government ID and a private bureaucracy that the holder of the ID would be pressured into interacting with. If that interface allows the private party to e.g. learn who you are, instead of just your age, it's only the government that could replace it with one that didn't.
> There are likely to be a lot more coming as the newer standards in this area were finalised last year. Online identity is a continually evolving space.
Evolution is supposed to cause bad ideas to die. The problem with laws, such as the ones surrounding government identity documents, is that they regularly require bad ideas to live. Which is why the use of government ID should be minimized.
> Some do in some circumstances, but far from all.
They all have that incentive, because it leads to money, and money is an incentive.
It's possible to turn someone down who is offering you money, but we're dealing with large scale systems here, and then the incentives determine the averages.
> Others (often financial institutions) have wised up to PII being a liability rather than an opportunity and some are working on frameworks and capabilites in this space that don't involve any more storage or transfer of anyone's ID than already happens in banks.
We really need to get it to stop happening in banks. The fact that every single thing you buy using a digital payment method is tied to your government ID is a preposterously dangerous status quo to leave unchallenged.