India is enamoured with the idea of surveillance for the greater good, really? I find this very hard to believe. Given the results of gold confiscation in Indi

India is enamoured with the idea of surveillance for the greater good, really? I find this very hard to believe. Given the results of gold confiscation in India, it seems that revealed preferences of citizens in India are not aligned with such an idea. Germany is not alone in this approach, but they are a little unique in some aspects due to some historical events. Canada and many others do not even have a national id at all, and it works great: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_identity_card_policies_by_country#Countries_with_no_identity_cards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_identity_card... You simply present multiple sources of identification, and de-facto in many cases driver license is the national ID. However, you can always present a combination of multiple documents. e.g. birth certificate + photo ID of some kind. As such, there is no central database, but multiple databanks in most of those countries. I think central databases are an extremely misguided approach, because even with biometric databases - people just end up selling their identity for money to fraudsters. It just hikes the cost to commit fraud a little bit. Estonia's e-residency cards were obtained by the truckload, and then resold to "evil doers" who then proceeded to launder something like $250 billion. That's for a country of 1.5 million.