Which means the provider can track you across all those. What you spend, what you read, what medical treatment you have.
All just to save carrying a wallet?
All just to save carrying a wallet?
There's other issues (UX, privacy to the 3rd parties) and further improvements here coming with better wallets (EU-wide) soon, but even today it's absolutely possible to have digital id that doesn't tell the government every time you use it.
I can't say if there are backdoors in place for them to log in, and if that is (currently) legal.
Hospitals and libraries are government run, I would assume even if they had their own login, they could manage to snoop the data, no?
These are all online service. So it's not even a wallet argument. But we recently got digital drivers license, which can be used in the "real" world. That is one card less you need to carry around. Only in DK and only for DK citizens though.
In the United States, what you read is your business. The librarians have been one of the very few groups who have successfully pushed back against the new administration's demands for information.
Last year, I could log in to my very large city's library web site and see everything I checked out for the last few years. I looked a couple of weeks ago, and all that history has been purged, I presume as a cautionary move to preserve my privacy. Good for them.
A lot more effort. In the UK public libraries are run by local authorities who do not seem to routinely share that information with other government bodies.
Libraries and hospitals are not purely online services though. I do carry a library card. I do not need one for hospital or doctors appointments.
It is possible, to trust the government in other parts of world.
That means trusting all future governments, all layers of government, all govt organisations with access to the data, and all governments they might share data with, and all other organisations they share data with.
You have to trust them to both use data correctly, AND to have sufficient security to keep the data safe while greatly increasing the attack surface.