A lot of the proposals don't involve you sending your drivers license or "other information" to anyone. The site in question asks you to verify with a trusted third party (usually a government entity), and that trusted third party only provides then with the end result of the validation.

> which is what Google etc have been trying to do for years but this would just completely fast track that.

Excuse me? They have done that for years. There's nothing to "fast track" here. Big Tech already implemented surveillance.

How many of those proposals do not have a government-mandated app as a spider in the middle of the web, which is aware of all the apps and websites you try to visit which ask for validation?