@Amgine I think the more effective place to counteract the trend towards ID everywhere is through privacy laws prohibiting requiring ID where unnecessary (with some detail about what's necessary).
Requiring proof or attestation of ID to attain verification that one has the name and face one claims to have is necessary: otherwise, LinkedIn (etc.) would be complicit in impersonation, fraud, libel, etc.
Requiring proof or attestation of ID is unnecessary to, for example, sell alcohol online, but anonymous proof or attestation of age is necessary.
Requiring proof or attestation of ID or age to, for example, read a factual article should be prohibited under privacy law.
The benefits and harms can be balanced, and doing so—explicitly allowing the claimed legitimate purpose on the condition of accomplishing that purpose in a manner which defeats the unstated and unjust purpose—would be more effective than delegating it to foreign jurisdictions. For example, it would be much harder to sell digital ID laws to voters if proven systems are already in place for anonymous proof-of-age.
The privacy jurisdictions could protect citizens and residents by beating the surveillance jurisdictions to it: providing exactly the claimed purpose (e.g., preventing children accessing porn) in a manner which defeats the unstated purpose (e.g., tracking which adult looks at what). It becomes politically untenable to sell the privacy violating mechanism to voters once they see a privacy preserving one in use: especially when one breach leaks ID documents, and the other breach leaks useless and inconsequential digital signatures of random one-time tokens.
It's kinda like if, in #rightToRepair discussions, legislators were to pretend to believe #Apple (etc.) that parts pairing is an anti-theft measure, and to require them to authorize any pairing, free of charge, upon presentation of proof of ownership to Apple or to any regulatorily required designated attestor.
Pretend to believe them about the purpose of a proof of ID or age requirement, provide a means to prove nothing more than strictly necessary, and require they accept it.
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