[strongpigeon]

I know it's an unrealistic pipe dream, but it feels like a privacy-friendly user identity/attestation mechanism is the kind of digital infrastructure that should be provided by the government.

We already trust the government to give proof of identity (through ID cards) and there is already a vast infrastructure network dedicated to that.

But who am I kidding, politicians would never let this happen (at least, not in a privacy preserving way). One can dream though.

[sofixa]

The EU already has the scaffolding for this via eIDAS - the standard for secure IDs with biometrics and NFC.

Some governments already have government SSO services, and some (sometimes the same, e.g. France) already have or are working on apps that locally, on device, scan your ID, take a selfie, compare the two, and confirm you are who you say you are.

[yreg]

Yes please, but do it in a way where the government doesn't know what services am I using and the service doesn't know who I am beyond being a unique non-registered human.

I'm not sure this is possible in EU and US. And I'm sure it is not possible worldwide.

[danny_codes]

Some countries have digital ID. Estonia comes to mind. Not sure how widely used it is though

[uyzstvqs]

Estonia has strong E-government services, not digital ID.

[ret32f]

Not so fast, Im working on something like this with a g_vt.