[vundercind]

Doctor, dentist, employers, educational institutions. [edit] all financial institutions, lenders, et c

Unless you’re buying everything with cash, your purchasing history will be connected to it, too. Where you drive (license plate scanning and data-sharing is widespread). Facial recognition in stores means paying cash might not even help (seen the ones that highlight your face on a monitor when you walk in the store?)

But we have to pretend we don’t have a national ID system any time it might be convenient to a person to have that.

[DaiPlusPlus]

Right. I thought the parent post was talking about being challenged by government officials/police ("papers, please") on a regular basis - and not about private-sector use. A misunderstanding on my part.