I had assumed that some governments would take on responsibility for identity management, and things would grow from there. It seems somewhat odd that companie

I had assumed that some governments would take on responsibility for identity management, and things would grow from there. It seems somewhat odd that companies such as Google and Meta are now providing this service, but these companies are more at ease with globalization than the nation states are. In Europe, there is eIDAS [1], but for now this seems limited to governmental organizations, and well, to Europe. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS