| > Once this is in place, the government that owns the Digital ID system can mandate that platforms such as social networks, search engines, email providers, etc. link the users in its jurisdiction to its Digital ID via OAuth/OIDC Governments can do that today already. Digital IDs don't contribute anything to this. They just make our lives easier, not governments'. > but they have to do a lot of legwork to link data to specific people. They'll always get false positives, false negatives, duplicates, etc. Those false positives/negatives, duplicates affect real people too. That's just a case for digital IDs, not against. > and, in the process, permanently linking their Digital ID Identifier to all their social media accounts How do you reach to that conclusion? How are they permanently linked? It's perfectly possible to verify your age digitally without permanently linking your ID with your social accounts. > Once Australia rolls this out to social networks, it will keep expanding until virtually everything is captured. Again, that can be done without digital IDs. You're holding the wrong front here. Privacy invading laws should be fought, but the public shouldn't be kept away from the convenience and privacy gains of digital IDs. It makes no sense. |