It does solve a lot of this. Some have gov’t issued IDs, others have a hybrid public/private system where banks issue the ids. But yes, a de facto standard elec

It does solve a lot of this. Some have gov’t issued IDs, others have a hybrid public/private system where banks issue the ids. But yes, a de facto standard electronic ID is almost unthinkable to not have. How else do you interact with authorities or healthcare? I used e-ID since long before smartphones, I can barely picture what it would be like to log in to handle taxes, benefits medicine recipes or doctors appointments if it worked any other way.