If done well, a government opperated digital ID could be very beneficial for society. Having a way to securely sign into different platforms using a trustless authenticator (that only shares the information you approve of) with a third party could be great.

Imagine signing onto a news site and knowing that every comment is actually a real person from your community and not a bot or a targeted influence campaign pushing an agenda.

The website doesn’t have to know your name, the government doesn’t have to know your username or track your activity, all what’s shared is that you’re an adult citizen from a particular region.

My only problem is I don’t exactly trust that it would be setup in this sort of ideal way.

I still think it’s worth pointing out that the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is about a billion dollars.

Yeah does seem a bit dangerous.

As a Canadian who graduated quite a while ago now. Jealous!