| | It also provides much greater control to a single authoritative party, rather than a diverse collection of entities, each for their own purposes. This could theoretically be useful in fighting crime<ref>https://www.dawn.com/news/1730768/safe-city-seeks-high-resolution-photos-of-over-4000-criminals-from-nadra</ref><ref>https://www.biometricupdate.com/202301/pakistan-id-authority-shares-data-of-4k-wanted-people-for-biometric-matching</ref>.<br/> However, that same single authority can use their power for negative purposes as well. For example, an opponent of the politicians in power could suddenly find their digital ID has been revoked, meaning that they can no longer bank<ref name = "bank1">"Bank Apologizes over Trucker Convoy account freeze ", Marc Patrone , May 30, 2022 , https://bjdichter.substack.com/p/bank-apologizes-over-trucker-convoy?r=10rk8l&</ref><ref name = "bank2">"..yesterday my ability to e-transfer funds was suddenly re-activated.”, Andrea Lee, May 2022, https://twitter.com/RealAndyLeeShow/status/1531645687548366848</ref><ref name = "bank3">Canadian Veteran banned from Scotiabank (phone audio) , Jan 20, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9R6SaXqxTI</ref><ref name = "bank4">https://twitter.com/rick_ppc/status/1616783852730474496</ref>, travel, buy food, earn money, or do much of anything else, all at once. The single ID authority would yield incredible power over its citizens, which some people see as a benefit and purpose of digital ID.<ref>https://thecountersignal.com/why-is-a-digital-id-so-dangerous/</ref><ref>https://www.wired.com/story/digital-ids-are-more-dangerous-than-you-think/</ref> | | It also provides much greater control to a single authoritative party, rather than a diverse collection of entities, each for their own purposes. This could theoretically be useful in fighting crime<ref>https://www.dawn.com/news/1730768/safe-city-seeks-high-resolution-photos-of-over-4000-criminals-from-nadra</ref><ref>https://www.biometricupdate.com/202301/pakistan-id-authority-shares-data-of-4k-wanted-people-for-biometric-matching</ref>.<br/> However, that same single authority can use their power for negative purposes as well. For example, an opponent of the politicians in power could suddenly find their digital ID has been revoked, meaning that they can no longer bank<ref name = "bank1">"Bank Apologizes over Trucker Convoy account freeze ", Marc Patrone , May 30, 2022 , https://bjdichter.substack.com/p/bank-apologizes-over-trucker-convoy?r=10rk8l&</ref><ref name = "bank2">"..yesterday my ability to e-transfer funds was suddenly re-activated.”, Andrea Lee, May 2022, https://twitter.com/RealAndyLeeShow/status/1531645687548366848</ref><ref name = "bank3">Canadian Veteran banned from Scotiabank (phone audio) , Jan 20, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9R6SaXqxTI</ref><ref name = "bank4">https://twitter.com/rick_ppc/status/1616783852730474496</ref>, travel, buy food, earn money, or do much of anything else, all at once. The single ID authority would yield incredible power over its citizens, which some people see as a benefit and purpose of digital ID.<ref>https://thecountersignal.com/why-is-a-digital-id-so-dangerous/</ref><ref>https://www.wired.com/story/digital-ids-are-more-dangerous-than-you-think/</ref> |
| | To federate<ref>"SSO is meant to authenticate one person across different systems. FIM will allow one user access to many applications over any number of networks..", from "Federated Identity Management vs. SSO: Which is Better?" Javed Shah, December 16, 2021 https://www.1kosmos.com/identity-management/federated-identity-management-vs-sso/</ref><ref>Compare and Contrast — Federated Identity vs Self-sovereign Identity Apr 26, 2021 https://academy.affinidi.com/compare-and-contrast-federated-identity-vs-self-sovereign-identity-227a85cbab18</ref><ref>White Paper: "Canada’s Digital ID Future - A Federated Approach In this brief, we highlight why Canada needs a digital identity system, how other countries have .." May 30, 2018 https://cba.ca/embracing-digital-id-in-canada</ref> a digital ID system refers to making national legislation.<br /> | | To federate<ref>"SSO is meant to authenticate one person across different systems. FIM will allow one user access to many applications over any number of networks..", from "Federated Identity Management vs. SSO: Which is Better?" Javed Shah, December 16, 2021 https://www.1kosmos.com/identity-management/federated-identity-management-vs-sso/</ref><ref>Compare and Contrast — Federated Identity vs Self-sovereign Identity Apr 26, 2021 https://academy.affinidi.com/compare-and-contrast-federated-identity-vs-self-sovereign-identity-227a85cbab18</ref><ref>White Paper: "Canada’s Digital ID Future - A Federated Approach In this brief, we highlight why Canada needs a digital identity system, how other countries have .." May 30, 2018 https://cba.ca/embracing-digital-id-in-canada</ref> a digital ID system refers to making national legislation.<br /> |