Comment by 63stack
2 days ago
While the question of "is it actually possible to do this in a privacy preserving way?" is certainly interesting, was there ever a _single_ occasion where a government had the option of doing something in a privacy preserving way, when a non-privacy preserving way was also possible? Politicians would absolutely kill for the idea of unmasking dissenters on internet forums. Even if the option is a possibility, they are deliberately not going to implement it.
> was there ever a _single_ occasion
I don't know where you live, but in my case, many. Beginning with the fact that I can buy groceries with cash.
Example does not fit, when cash was introduced electronic money transfer was not an option.
Health insurance being digitalised and encrypted on the insurance card in a decentralised way?
Many e-IDs in many countries?
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