Many countries have digital IDs already and nothing like this is happening. Digital ID has nothing to do we censorship or freezing of bank accounts. Online Safety act was introduces without digital ID. I have a digital ID but I don’t have to show it anywhere.

Yeah I don’t understand the big deal.

We’ve been using digital ID to identify ourselves to online government services in Australia since 2018.

Obviously I won’t be using it to log in to facebook or mucky-jpegs.com but I don’t really see it as a surveillance over-reach.

I don’t really see it as a surveillance over-reach.

Just because you don’t see it now happening, it doesn’t mean it could not be used against people to persecute them, especially in fascist countries, where this would be a perfect tool for tracking people and mass surveillance.

This is a slippery slope logical fallacy.

Thing could be used with nefarious intent therefore thing should not exist.

I’ll admit I’m not really across the technical implementation details. The equivalent apps here in Australia don’t have the capability to track or surveil you.

There’s different variants but the ones here basically just show a photo of your ID with an animated background and generate a time based token that can be scanned and verified.