I think "The state won’t give up its monopoly on identity" is the most violently american sentence I read in the whole year.
Who gets to choose the they?
Do they also have a right to build a database of every time I utilize my ID? What's stopping them?
I think there is already a large group of people who would prefer to live in a society without ceding that much power to a centralized authority.
Whether you need an ID to do certain things or are tracked doing certain things is also a very separate issue.
What is stopping "them" is that "them" in liberal democracies (as a technical term) isn't free to do whatever they please nor beyond control/recall/etc. If you want to live in a society, there will be rules, implicit or explicit, on how people interact, delegate, etc.
Your government needs to know who everybody is. That means illegal immigrants can't get drivers licenses, and that's kind of the point.
> Even IDs for undocumented people (such as Californian AB 60 driver’s licenses) require a foreign passport, national ID card or birth certificate, and can’t help people who have no state-issued identity documents at all.
> This existing ID system is harmful, inaccessible and a single point of failure