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by QuadDamaged 4435 days ago
Case in point: HMRC (UK Taxman) is about to sell 'anonymized' taxpayer data. With enough 'anonymized' data-dumps and CPU power, at some point, it will become trivial to correlate an ID Card ID with datapoints.
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I actually think it's the other way round.

I actually think the other way.

In countries where you have ID card, you just show it to confirm your identity and you're done.

In UK you need to bring your bank statement and utility bills, with your address. Combined with your date of birth, it makes it much easier to match with companies database.

No. Read about anonymous credentials ;)