This has always been their excuse for taking away more freedoms.

You may as well give the website your phone number because it can already recognize you from your browser fingerprint (but not across browsers or connect you to a phone number and other people with your number in their contacts). And then you may as well tell them your name. And then you may as well give them your personal details because they can already find out from the government or credit reporting agencies. And then you may as well upload your government ID. And then you may as well do the live selfie (with your consent for police databasing and AI training in the small print) because they already have your photo.

Let us ban carrying guns outside because you're not allowed to open carry or take them into gun free zones anyway. Give us your guns because you're not allowed to take them outside anyway. Let us criminalize harming burglars because you don't have weapons anyway.

You may as well get digital ID because you already have physical ID (where the government doesn't know when/what you use it for and isn't able to make it stop working in certain circumstances) anyway.