They’d probably either jump straight to requiring a phone number or ssn and try to write it off as “there’s no other way to verify you’re a real person.” We seem to be going this way already.
SSN would be illegal (in California at least) and phone number comes with the exact same set of problems. Despite all the carping about using email as login, I’ve never seen a better solution offered.
I agree. Honestly I think this should be a government provided service, not a corporate one.