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Can you sign that comment with your real name and address to be an example for all of us? Don't forget to add your phone number.
We will of course need proof, so attaching a scan of your id would be a step towards It.Fixing.Something.
As I said, having a government platform doing the encrypted id check means you would get the encrypted id check and verification, and the government would read your data (as it already does). Don’t try to sell fear.
And by the way, I’m registered as the owner and resident of my house that has an internet connection with an IP from which I’m writing, paid with my bank account, all of them well known to the government.
The only difference is you don’t know whether I’m an individual over 18 and a citizen of the EU or a sim on a multisim device in Vladivostok. And I think that’s not good.