“Login.gov is already used to access 200 websites run by 28 Federal agencies and over 40 million Americans have accounts,” Wyden wrote in a letter to the IRS today. “Unfortunately, login.gov has not yet reached its full potential, in part because many agencies have flouted the Congressional mandate that they use it, and because successive Administrations have failed to prioritize digital identity. The cost of this in…
Here in France, some people from the anti-nazi resistance from the 40s later got into heated arguments about the national ID card, which had been made mandatory by the collaborationist regime. The idea is that if there were reliable/secure unique identifiers during WWII, the resistance movement could not have existed at all, and could not have saved countless lives.
To this day, France is one of the rare countries where it's perfectly legal to walk anywhere without any identifying document with you. This doesn't mean that you won't be harassed by fascist cops though, depending on what you look like.
I'm pretty much against fraud in the common sense of the word. But the biggest frauds are done by the rich and don't require to make up new identities. They're hidden in plain sight with lawyers and contracts with offshore corporations. I personally couldn't care that social services fraud costs the government some millions every year, when tax evasion and corrupt-government contracts (remember the Pentagon audit?) account for literally trillions going missing and nobody in government wants to do anything about that.