The bouncer saying I need to see your ID always rubbed me up the wrong way, not because I objected to being challenged but because they don’t need to know who I am, they just need to see proof of age. Not even that! Proof that my age is greater than or equal to X!
In a world where we would might actually see societal benefits in having people prove things about themselves*, could we not leverage technology to emit verifiable tokens that say “I have the right to work” and “my eyeballs have this shape and are this far apart”** without the world turning into 1984?
(I suppose with enough people there could still be a black market for token generators where you could feasibly buy one that matched a subset of your biometrics.)
* Illegals have the potential to be exploited just as much they themselves can be exploitative. It goes both ways.
** Is it possible to have biometrics that can be verified against my physical presence, but which can’t be used to identify me in a crowd?