Isn't it obvious that this scandal was either provoked or amplified in order to make Americans get themselves mandatory government IDs with chips and biometrics

Isn't it obvious that this scandal was either provoked or amplified in order to make Americans get themselves mandatory government IDs with chips and biometrics? ...not that that would be a bad thing. Just getting in line with EU and the rest of the world, finally. Mass monitoring would at least become a few order of magnitudes cheaper hopefully spending those funds on more socially useful things. Offer a chip-less option for more privacy paranoid people, so that at least they can't be tracked remotely when they don't carry their phones (yeah, some countries have this option system). And it's all nice and dandy. As an European, I find it mind boggling when I see people without adequately secured and mandatory IDs in the US...