That is a very scary post. For all Verify had/has real issues (mostly politically mandated pressure to use + key usability and accessibility issues) at least i

That is a very scary post. For all Verify had/has real issues (mostly politically mandated pressure to use + key usability and accessibility issues) at least it had some people who understood key elements of the identity landscape. That article appears to draw no distinction between the proving of the existence and of the ownership of an identity. If anything the examples conflate them which is a critical failure. Identity is a really hard government problem, mostly because it is a government issue/need really not an individual's and government are insanely bad at addressing it.