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Many critics take a broad view  of what is "digital identity".  For example, several believe digital ID is ''already here'', in places.  Others tie it to a collection of trends:  

Many critics take a broad view  of what is "digital identity".  For example, several believe digital ID is ''already here'', in places.  Others tie it to a collection of trends:  

# trends to tie commerce with politics (such as the below links for frozen bank accounts, vilification of anonymity, privacy, promotion of points systems and social credit systems, promotions of CBDC agendas),  

# trends to tie commerce with politics (such as the below links for frozen bank accounts, vilification of anonymity, privacy, promotion of points systems and social credit systems, promotions of CBDC agendas),  

# trends to ''require'' your most intimate data ([[biometrics]]) for [[Multifactor Authentication|authentication]] and [[Access Control|access]] to services, and to perhaps remove your cards ('' decentralized methods of proving ID''),

# trends to ''require'' one's most intimate data ([[biometrics]]) for [[Multifactor Authentication|authentication]] and [[Access Control|access]] to services, and to perhaps remove one's cards ('' decentralized methods of proving ID''),

# broader trends toward and centralization (gas, food..) and authoritarianism (demands for compliance and trust, perhaps surpassing that demanded during lockdowns and [[Covid passport|covid vaccine passports]])

# broader trends toward and centralization (gas, food..) and authoritarianism (demands for compliance and trust, perhaps surpassing that demanded during lockdowns and [[Covid passport|covid vaccine passports]])