Comment by AnthonyMouse

> In my own country, digital ID adoption was a political hot topic for a long time after the Orthodox Church realized that the new chips contain 12-digit long IDs that might contain the sequence 666.

Indeed, look at those ignorant Bible thumpers objecting to the spreading installation of barcode scanners for their barcode tattoos. Surely the number is not an allegory for the general principal that we should strongly resist attempts to centralize authority or serialize humans like a herd of cattle.

> but somehow the mere possibility of this happening in the digital IDs sparked a huge outrage and made politicians avoid the topic for quite a while.

Maybe because the objection was never really about a specific sequence of digits and was more about the expansion of human tracking.