2/? Hey, real quick. You know how on old SSN cards it says "For Social Security and Tax Purposes - Not For Identification." That was added in 1946 but removed in 1972. And uh... I definitely couldn't get my current job without providing my SSN, I couldn't open my bank accounts without it, and I couldn't receive retirement benefits without it. So...
If a national ID is required for employment, you could be fired and your employer fined if you fail to present your papers. People without ID cards can be denied the right to purchase property, open a bank account or receive government benefits.
Once biometric data is captured, it frequently flows between governmental and private sector users. ... Private sector security threat models assume that at any one time, one per cent of company employees are willing to sell or trade confidential information for personal gain.
We've already had the Equifax breach with SSN's. That wasn't a devious or disgruntled employee looking to make a quick buck, that was the entire organization choosing to skimp on security to save money. And no, I don't believe the CEO of Equifax when he says this was all to blame on one person. A failure that big is never the result of one individual, but a result of the entire institution full of people who failed to recognize and remedy the problem. So I'm in agreement with @Nowyn, we should be judicious about who can access your ID and set some consequences for them if they abuse or misuse that access. (I think it would help if we had cryptographically secure ID's, but that's an extra layer I don't want to jump into, I've ranted enough already.)
We already sacrifice freedom for security all the time. We already sacrifice privacy for identity all the time, from dating profiles to driver's licenses. We already have a national ID system, it's called Social Security, and it sucks. We're already there, so where do we go from here?