> I think based on that conversation (and sure, call me biased) the "invasion of privacy" concerns were way overblown I mean, that's why this calls for a probe

> I think based on that conversation (and sure, call me biased) the "invasion of privacy" concerns were way overblown I mean, that's why this calls for a probe, right? I also suspect they were overblown - but that's why you look into something. > I think that the "invasion of privacy" ship must have already sailed, the government has your photo ID in a database, and it's already on record there forever. I absolutely disagree with this framing of the question. It's false equivalence to suggest that once something exists somewhere "unprivate" that any other system would also be fine. We are going to need to dig into systems and understand if the reduction in privacy fulfills a necessary function and push back on all the systems where that isn't true. There's no magic in "public" v.s. "private" companies - but each new layer introduces new potential for mismanagement and so you need to ask everyone to "get to the bottom" of what happened.