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[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The government will know who you are, but not what you are requesting the token for.

Unfortunately, things don’t work like that. There are a nearly infinite number of ways for the identity provider to figure that out.

The site will know what the token is for, but will not know who is presenting it.

Same as above.

Wherever you go, whatever you do, there are many entities already tracking you that know precisely who you are and what you are doing. All such legislation would do is add governments to the list. There is no safe or anonymous version version of an identity provider.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago

There are a nearly infinite number of ways for the identity provider to figure that out.

Name one.

[-] valion@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

What is there to stop the government from later issuing a request to the service owner/operator, by court order, for a list of those verified and the tokens used to verify them (thus linking the accounts and their data to the individuals and their identities)?

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

The same thing that stops them from doing the same thing right now to the ISP.

BTW the government will not have the tokens, they will be created on your device, in an auditable way, using OSS.

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