Thank you Americans for providing yet another great example to point to, when arguing that holding private data centrally will inevitably lead to it being stolen.
In a system that requires you to give your private keys to the other person for authentication, you basically have to revoke and generate new credentials every time you auth.
So basically we need to get a new passport or drivers license or social security number after every time we take a photo of it or let someone else scan it.
So basically its impossible to protect yourself in this environment
You're not wrong, but there are enough demographics encoded in one that they could probably match names to a lot of them, if they don't already have them, with some brokered (or stolen) data
Not as much data encoded as I thought. Just place of birth, but still. If you are able to get these paired with data, this could be very bad.
Or very good, depending on your opinion of the system 😜