All previous systems avoided this. The government issued me an ID in the past, yet had no record of when I used it, or for what.

I am so much more afraid of monopolies invading my privacy than roving hackers, or my corner store. Governments are the ultimate monopoly.

The government doesn't know what you use your ID for in a properly implemented ZKP system, either.

And clearly, the alternative is not the corner store. It's private monopolies building databases of 153M IDs.