You need ID to buy cigarettes and alcohol, prescription drugs or to get sim card... you will need it to register for social network account... do not seem as big of a deal to me. Even less when considering all the positives.
Whereas if I upload my ID to a tech company (that potentially answers to both my own government and foreign governments, as well as having its own ad-related agenda) I am a bit less certain about what will happen to this data.
"A bit less certain" is a really mild way of putting it. I'd be confident that whatever ID I upload to the Internet is going to be stored forever, shared with "partner" companies, linked with as much data about me as those partner companies can find, and then eventually leaked in a security breach, resulting in the company issuing a press release telling everyone they "Take Security Very Seriously."
And if you're suggesting Digital ID (EUDI style); showing ID at the store doesn't share metadata of that purchase with the government.
Prescription drugs are different because those are tied to your name anyway, and that’s why medical information has a different protection standard.
As a parent of 2 I think it’s better to talk to your kids, check what they’re up to, and, you know, be involved in their lives. Also, as a former kid, if there’s something they want to do but you don’t want them to: they’ll do it. Better that they know they can trust you to say “I still want to do X” than have to do it in hiding and without your support if anything goes wrong.
"How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj38m11218xo
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/rightwing-in...
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/x-just-accidentally-...
or maybe VPN using Canadian secessionist from Thailand?
https://www.cp24.com/news/canada/2025/12/04/rage-or-real-exp...
For Europeans ID is not as big of a deal as losing democracy thru foreign influence manipulating public opinion on a massive scale.