I am on business in China at the moment and this is what they have. Scanning their id everywhere and everything we do is recorded. I was literally telling them yesterday that this is coming in Europe.

with the number of data breaches that happened world wide, I can only worry about this

and NEITHER DO CORPORATIONS!!!

It will be mandatory to have it for work or to get benefits and it isn't compatible with non-Google Android variants. UK in US Tech's pockets once again.

And let's revive the old #No2ID

errr, your finances are needed to tax you.

I agree, and yet many, if not most, people allow corporations to collect all of that information, and more. The users sometimes freely give it too. Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, X/Twitter/Bluesky, every supermarket club card, etc. And many of these companies and their data broker buddies sell this data, so the government doesn’t need to collect it themselves. They can quietly drink from the firehouse of data already available.

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