AWS doesn't deserve that kind of responsibility, no tech giant does. I'm surprised anyone would propose that without considering the consequences of this statem

AWS doesn't deserve that kind of responsibility, no tech giant does. I'm surprised anyone would propose that without considering the consequences of this statement: The richest man in the world now controls the idea of your identity. I will give crayons to every angry third grader willing to color all over that idea until it is unrecognizable. Real cryptography based identities with derived keys are possible. PGP allows this today. With some organization you could use PGP with twice derived keys for various identities that can be corralled under a single identity. Again, all possible today for the aspiring entrepreneur. What I think will be infinitely tricky is creating an organization that is international to manage them without influence. They can't be beholden to a single nation or continent. Being able to be influenced by any nation would need to be a P1 bug in the corporate architecture. You'd need a stupidly secure facility with offline data gaps, the kind that are proposed for things like SCADA. Anyway, I've thought about this problem a good bit over the years. I'm interested in others thoughts.