Comment by tern

I'm quite disappointed by the discourse in this thread.

We can build privacy-preserving identity. It's a huge opportunity. Go work on it!

If you're in the Bay, there's a conference on it every year where the people building the tech and setting the standards are hashing out the ideas!

When the government comes knocking, they're not coming up with stuff from scratch—they're picking up the tools we left around ready to use.