>>adream+NC
There's significant bi-partisan resistance, in the US, to anything like a national ID, unfortunately, with the result that we have one
anyway (because of course we do, the modern world doesn't work without it) it's just an ad-hoc combination of other forms of ID, terrible to work with, heavily reliant on commercial 3rd parties, unreliable, and laughably insecure. But the end result is still a whole bunch of public and private databases that personally identify us and contain tons of information—kind of by necessity, actually, since our ID is a combination of tons of things.
It's a very frustrating situation. Worst of both worlds.