A pretty good system, the crucial implementation being a robust consent management system for data access, and Metadata tracking to make sure the account identifier isn't being used behind the scenes as a de-facto tracker by the public sector.

To me the risk of Digital ID is two fold, one it gives the government a centralized means of tracking individual behavior and thereby crushing dissent (from a Social Credit System, to straight up Russian style gulagging the opposition). On the flip side it gives private sector actors a central immutable identifiers to associate behavior with that can't be erased by deleting or abandoning an account.

Age Verification is the point where these two concerns are merging into one. Abolishing online anonymity is tantamount to universal surveillance by both the state and private actors, setting up a system of automated persecution tyrants have dreamed of for ages but hasn't been possible until today with Machine Learning making mass data processing automation both viable and feasible.

Fascist population control and the "final solution" weren't possible in the way they were implemented until IBM sold the Germans early tabulating machines / computers. ML is the next phase of that same arc of development.

Use of Digital ID to log internet activity is what makes individual data streams continuous, contiguous, and compileable by default.

The consequences are clear, the question is what we can do to prevent it from happening.