[argd678]

The main problem with a lot of personal data is that it’s used for identification right? There are other issues of course, but wouldn’t it make sense to assign everyone a cryptographic key that’s just used for authentication?

[SahAssar]

From the cached site (it seems to have been taken down since the news broke) it seems that this dataset was more used for marketing: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3...

You are right about providing a more proper digital authentication solution for citizens, and at least one country has this[0], but in this case it just seems that the data was being kept/exploited for no better reason than marketing and that the company should not have had access to it from the start.

[0]: https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/id-card/