Identity vs Privacy? Trade-offs required?

How can digital identity be used to build better trust and systems in our daily transactions? There are really significant challenges and consequences to having a national guaranteed identity - a single identity provider. Knowing who you're interacting with, in every form, in every situation is not as simple as you might think. There's a lot of analogues to physical identity that are worth considering. What would it mean for us to not have privacy? Does identity mean we don't have privacy in our interactions? Who can we trust and what authority do they have? Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/o_43fyGjxu24Ur5rpzzy_D6aZCI?utm_source=copy_url Image by Dall-e prompte: a cartoon like image of a humanoid robot looking into a mirror and seeing a masked pirate version of itself