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What if I don't trust the government or their appointed "identifiers"?

• zo1 6y ago
  Then I'd ask why you trust them with everything else? They can pretty much make you a non-person, or make you disappear, or treat you as sub-human. And they regularly prioritize companies, rich people and other special-interest groups over you. So yeah, you shouldn't trust them. But right now they are an inevitability with no alternative, so we need to figure out how to solve the problems plaguing us whilst reigning government in and keeping it from overstepping. Some element of "given" trust is necessary for that. As a side note, seeing as this is a technical space. One reason you should trust their identifiers is the same reason you shouldn't use non-unique natural keys as primary-keys in your database. The identifier is essentially your surrogate key and government is in a very unique position of power/influence that aides it in being a custodian of citizen data.