I'm going to take a different approach now.
In my professional opinion, as a Software and Data Engineer, it is unacceptable and dangerous for the government to require citizens to provide their ID to access social media.
The reason for this is the mass scale risk of identity theft and fraud.
Requiring companies to ID individuals results in many different databases of EXTREMELY sensitive information. Every database is an additional risk vector being legislated into existence.
If a single one is compromised, you have now endangered every single citizen in your country who was forced to provide their ID.
As it stands currently, providing ID to sites is optional and requires individuals to weigh this risk against the service provided (often times payments, or KYC compliance [also a risk btw but I digress]).
In addition to needing to worry about the increased incentive of 3rd party compromises, ID increases the amount of sensitive information available to individuals at each company. So, the increased risk of a bad actor within ANY SINGLE ONE of the companies is also a danger.
Either situation results in:
- mass identity theft
- mass fake identities
- mass fraud (insurance, auto, banking, immigration)
- invalidation of every piece of government ID
Based on the advancement of technology with adversarial networks, the risk of a leak is inevitable eventually.
And this is before any quantum computing hack fears.
In conclusion, internet ID legislation is a collective civilizational risk potentially threatening every single citizen who is compelled to submit their ID.
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