Comment by Aachen

> Uploading (partially redacted) scans of your ID like you would be obligated to today

Redacted, I wish...

To vote in the upcoming election, I was asked to upload an uncensored copy of an identity document to the website of the municipality of The Hague

To keep the domain I registered in 2014, the French TLD required me to send them the same thing by unencrypted email a few months ago. I tried sending a link to a PNG so it wouldn't linger in their inbox forever but they absolutely required it to be an attachment

To buy a prepaid card in Germany, I was required to show an uncensored identity document. I had put a tiny piece of tape tape over only the burgerservicenummer that the germans can't make use of anyway because it's the Dutch numbering system that's beholden only to specific authorities

There's scarcely anyone who appears to know what EU legislation says on identity numbers. The Dutch government themselves apparently don't