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That's what I did with my Austrian goverment ID during the COVID times. Had to go the embassy to identify myself. Those times the Deutschland ticket was still cheap, so no problem.

Agreed. But would mean having to educate people on security, privacy and computing in general… Pretty sure most government like having most people uneducated on such things

I feel like you could do it in an app or a card with an NFC chip.

People don't have to know security or cryptography to do their banking online.

Either way it would be infinitely better than the current social security number situation we have.

Agreed. Not saying there are no ways to ease the process but someone has to put some effort

On which hw? Because a smart-card (if open hardware and FLOSS) might be safe, certainly not a smartphone.