Your failure of imagination doesn’t make national ID a good idea.

This is Chesterton’s Fence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...

The point was to compare the proposed ID change with the state of surveillance before (bad but still not all that comprehensive) and after Flock et al (more comprehensive).

They are already doing the camera thing with flock.