The government is already tracking things like your financial investments. Except now, they're doing it in a disconnected and sprawling way, centered around you

The government is already tracking things like your financial investments. Except now, they're doing it in a disconnected and sprawling way, centered around your SSN. Which is insecure. I'm very paranoid about tracking and privacy, but the reality is that identity verification is just a necessary part of some services. Like opening a brokerage account, or riding a plane. So, if we HAVE to do it, we should have a more secure way of doing it. There's no reason we should be relying on easily-gathered 9 digit numbers.