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What you say is true. However, the dangers are at least as large as the benefits. There are two kinds of danger that we need to keep in mind. First, and most o

What you say is true. However, the dangers are at least as large as the benefits. There are two kinds of danger that we need to keep in mind. First, and most obvious, is hacking. Government services are hacked as least as often as private services. If all of your information is centrally accessible under a single ID, that is a single point of serious danger. Second, we tend to think of government as a monolithic organization. It is not - government is made up of people. Some good, some evil, most just trying to get through the day. There have been plenty of cases of individuals, with government access, avenging themselves on their ex-spouses, on their rivals, or on people they just don't like. Centralized access to all your government services makes you much more vulnerable to such attacks. That's not so say a centralized ID is a bad idea. However, we need to be aware of the associated problems, and ensure that there is security, and that mitigations are already planned in advance for when (not if) a security breech occurs.

hcfman 3y ago
A big problem with government having large power is that there is absolutely not repercussions for abuse and absolutely no functional way to address any abuse of power if discovered. The Dutch government used a neighbor of mine in a drastically illegal way, faciliating criminality by proxy (Through the neighbor) and protecting said neighbor for more than 10 years. They call it an "intervention" and it's intended to be actions to interfere with organised crime. However, I was simply literally living between the civilian that this proxy intervention was being carried out and the person that once way back in 1995 was arrested and convicted for growing hennep. I became a target of this "intervention" simply because I objected to the collateral harrassment. Not a simple safe guard succeeded. Every government department simply ignored my formal complaints. The police turned off all response to my calls simply because the public prosecutor told them to. I had to force my stalking case to caught by means of the national ombudsman and it took 5 years to get it to court. Then the prosecutors involved got involved in this caught case and made it fail. The main prosecutor was in fact pretending to prosecute someone for stalking that was his own illegally run informant. The other prosecutor moved to a position on the board of directors of the court of Maastricht so that they could interfere with the prosecution both directly by the prosecutor and behind the scenes. The one interfering behind the scenes is now the president of the court of Maastrict. I filed police charges against one of the prosecutors. They simply refused to accept the evidence. I appealed and the attorney general simply ignored and refused to comment on the evidence. If there is absolutely no functional safe guards for abuse, laws with this sort of power simply should not be passed!!

hcfman 3y ago

A big problem with government having large power is that there is absolutely not repercussions for abuse and absolutely no functional way to address any abuse of power if discovered. The Dutch government used a neighbor of mine in a drastically illegal way, faciliating criminality by proxy (Through the neighbor) and protecting said neighbor for more than 10 years. They call it an "intervention" and it's intended to be actions to interfere with organised crime. However, I was simply literally living between the civilian that this proxy intervention was being carried out and the person that once way back in 1995 was arrested and convicted for growing hennep. I became a target of this "intervention" simply because I objected to the collateral harrassment. Not a simple safe guard succeeded. Every government department simply ignored my formal complaints. The police turned off all response to my calls simply because the public prosecutor told them to. I had to force my stalking case to caught by means of the national ombudsman and it took 5 years to get it to court. Then the prosecutors involved got involved in this caught case and made it fail. The main prosecutor was in fact pretending to prosecute someone for stalking that was his own illegally run informant. The other prosecutor moved to a position on the board of directors of the court of Maastricht so that they could interfere with the prosecution both directly by the prosecutor and behind the scenes. The one interfering behind the scenes is now the president of the court of Maastrict. I filed police charges against one of the prosecutors. They simply refused to accept the evidence. I appealed and the attorney general simply ignored and refused to comment on the evidence. If there is absolutely no functional safe guards for abuse, laws with this sort of power simply should not be passed!!