A super common complaint about Equifax is that everyone's SSNs were stolen, which puts people at risk of identity theft. With a national ID scheme where authent

A super common complaint about Equifax is that everyone's SSNs were stolen, which puts people at risk of identity theft. With a national ID scheme where authentication is not based on knowing what is essentially a primary key, this concern would go away. This would do nothing about any other data, but to draw a parallel to merchant breaches, we mostly see stolen credit cards as a nuisance and a matter for the banks to deal with, rather than something we really worry about.