Aren't all these digital advancements and services simply a unification of existing biometric IDs/passports/gov websites logins/banks and credit cards/etc' ? All of these already exist in some online form but are inconvenient to some, and people would like to have easier access to all their services (medicine/banking/IDs). Does it say anywhere that digitalization is MANDATORY? I think it's all optional, and simply is made for convenience, like in Estonia they were proud of their digital keys to login to websites etc' "amazing advanced futuristic Estonia" with a magical USB key to be used as login lol, was always kinda funny to me but cute, nothing︀ wrong with that.
Or you say there will be NO paper versions of all these︁ docs and stuff, and digital-only will be mandatory, connecting everything about a person to a︂ single key/ID which can be blocked/controlled by any of the government branches? (let's say you're︃ guilty of DL suspension for a month, and you lose other rights like medical insurance︄ or bank account gets frozen etc, but that's nonsense, people would never let something like︅ that happen, so all these digital things will simply be a means of convenience, not︆ a dystopian 'control' thing, IMHO).
I'm pretty sure we're exaggerating when we're discussing the digital︇ advancements. Look, the government can suspend your DL right? even though it's 'plastic' physical and︈ not linked to anything else. They also can decide to not reissue a passport, despite︉ it's "paper" passport, so what? they still control all of these aspects of our life,︊ even in "paper". So what's the difference if it's all 'digital' or 'paper' ? still︋ controlled in the government offices and their databases anyway.
