But you can if you live in a well functioning democratic society - remember the alternative is not no id but privatized for profit identity providers like Google and Facebook.
Well functioning democratic society is and idea that US explicitly rejects, because democratic society can point a finger at you and that doesn't feel nice.
A well functioning democratic society is one of the valid states before an autocratic regime. The Nazi party was elected.
Apart from regime changes, being a functional democratic society doesn’t protect you from technical incompetence nor does it limit the ability for people with access to the DB from abusing it.
