[al_borland]

The more people you give your personal information to, the less personal it becomes.

The servers storing this information have been hacked in the past and it will happen again in the future. The fewer places your ID lives, the lower the risk of it leaking.

Even if you don’t view the data as sensitive, it still associates a person with a website. Depending on the site, that can have negative ramifications in a person’s life. This is especially true when certain websites get associated with various political leaning and when the data leaks, the people who happened to be registered (for whatever their reason) get attacked.

[ivan_gammel]

ID verification does not increase risks for majority of people. Most people don’t use single use email aliases and thus harmful association can happen for them in any leak of their account data, with or without ID details. It is likely that higher compliance requirements will actually reduce the risk of a leak. And of course, chances that every website doing verification will store your ID are very low. It‘s costly, so it will likely be outsourced to a third party provider specializing in this job (which will be much more secure than doing it with some WordPress plugin or other shitty custom solution).

[delusional]

Where I'm from we sorted this out with laws. It's not hard to figure out if one of your workers are associating with a union, but you're not allowed to treat them differently based on that. Laws make sure you don't, even though you technically could.

[al_borland]

The tricky part is proving you’re being treated differently and that’s the reason why. Trying to legislate human behavior at that level doesn’t seem to work well.

My company has rules against retaliation. Good luck proving that’s the reason you didn’t get promoted, or were left off of a project. People get left off projects and don’t get promoted all the time. Keeping your job because the company is legally obligated to sounds like an uncomfortable working environment.