• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Why would it be dystopian? Governments provide services and financial aids that also require security and safe authentication of ID. Actually, identity rights protection is the main thing governments provide.

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      4 hours ago

      Well, if it’s for something related to your government ID then okay, but you made it sound like you had to use their thing on a lot of services

      Like requiring something provided by the government for paying online is wild

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        4 hours ago

        “People shop for groceries online with government vouchers”. Doesn’t sound wild to me at all. It is the most basic possible social security program in the 21st century. There’s a difference between government way is the only way, and government offers a way for those who can’t otherwise access basic human need. 2FA and MFA is basic security, without any context it is not any more or less dystopian than a bank, a phone carrier or Google providing MFA.

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          37 minutes ago

          It is the most basic possible social security program in the 21st century

          Wtf? Health care is the most basic social security.

          “People shop for groceries online with government vouchers”

          You never mentionned this. But still, it makes you so much traceable. Doesn’t feel really good, being said like that.