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This is only hypothetical for government ID's, but in theory government IDs could provide pairwise pseudonymous identifiers with services. Your ID with a single service is stable, but it is different with each service.




They imagined a scenario where the state ordered 2 companies to identify users. How would replacing 1 company with the state improve this?

What would the state force you to do in this case?

Is your question about what authoritarian states do with information about everyone's private lives?



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