Imagine you submit your ID and a data breach happens, or Louisiana subpoenas the information and makes it public. Now imagine you live in Louisiana (a pretty co

Imagine you submit your ID and a data breach happens, or Louisiana subpoenas the information and makes it public. Now imagine you live in Louisiana (a pretty conservative state) and suddenly everyone knows you like to watch every type of porn, such as those seen as more taboo like male/male or male/trans. You are suddenly a target for violence in a place where such violence is most likely to occur, because of your state government's actions. Nobody's saying kids should be watching porn. In a perfect world, this is a good law. We live in reality, though; data breaches happen routinely, and governments can do unethical, harmful, legal things. You should always examine laws in how they can be enforced in the worst way, and what the next logical step might be for legislators with ill intent towards any kind of minority group. > We could argue over the implementation of it, and worry about the downstream consequences, but then shouldn't the argument be: how to accomplish this without those effects? No country in the world has the identification infrastructure to implement this in a rights-neutral way, as far as I know. To do it, your ID would have to be a sort-of rolling public/private key pair that others can use to verify information with, such as DOB and driving eligibility. We would then have to track what entities are querying your ID and what info they got so that we can audit who's getting our Id info and make sure they have the appropriate access.