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What!? One of the thousands of separate and individually "secured" systems that you have to give your information to on a daily basis failed? But how could this be? Everyone knows having 1747627994 points of possible failure is the only way to ensure digital security!
Sovereign identity and Solid are the way. But governments will have to play a role in large scale implementation.
For some reason people seem to trust commercial organizations with misaligned incentives over governmental bodies.
Eu is working on a digital wallet that would (among other things) help with this.
Afaik It has a tiered information/identity structure, where the lowest level is: "is this a human being" (as an alternative to captcha)
Then you could have age. (Just "is this person above %age") Response would be just yes/no
Then spesific age, nationality etc etc.
You get the prompt, where it says what data they are asking for and you can concent or decline.
To be fair, some people have less reason to trust their government with their data, then others.
There are varying degrees of trust in authorities in the world.