It's tough to make that argument when those were the days of physical locations and card-based verification. While SS# is thoroughly unsuitable and personal in

It's tough to make that argument when those were the days of physical locations and card-based verification. While SS# is thoroughly unsuitable and personal info is even more so, that pragmatism and illusion of security serves as the foundation of government and commerce. What are we going to use instead? The likelihood of a truly national cryptographically verifiable smart ID card is seemingly nil given the patchwork quilt of laws in the US.