Those businesses also have control. They just don't like the option of control they have, which is to stay out of those countries altogether.

> This is something you should send to your government that makes those rules.

My government hasn't made those rules, at least not yet. Last time they tried, I joined the crowd yelling at them about it. It's easier to do that if people aren't giving them technology they can pretend solves the fundamental problems with what they're doing.

Any more bright ideas?

> Those businesses also have control. They just don't like the option of control they have, which is to stay out of those countries altogether.

Yes. ?

Apparently they don't want to leave and are happy staying there and complying. If you don't like a businesses practice, don't use them. . .

> Last time they tried, I joined the crowd yelling at them about it.

Good. I hope more people that feel as strongly about the subject as you will follow your lead.

> It's easier to do that if people aren't giving them technology they can pretend solves the fundamental problems with what they're doing.

No one is "giving" them technology that pretends anything. There is a community effort to come up with privacy focused, secure solutions. If you noticed the OIDC4VC protocols are still in the draft phase. If it's fubar no one will use it. Worse than that is, if nothing comes of any proposed solutions, the state won't just say oh well you tried.

Either we will continue to deal with the current solution of businesses collecting our ids and biometrics and each one having a db of this info to sell/have stolen, or, some consultant that golfs with some gov official will tell them the tech industry can't figure it out but they have a magic solution that's even better and will build a system (using tax dollars) that uses government IDs with the added bonus of tracking and then all of our internet usage can be tracked by the government.

Wantonly dismissing any effort to make things better in an acceptable way is not going to make it magically go away forever. That ship has sailed. You can resist efforts to find a privacy focused solution and get stuck with an even worse one from the state, or, get your crowd yelling hat back on and help make sure data and privacy protections are solidly baked into these solutions the tech community is trying to build.