Just like Britons can’t imagine Estonia, I know you can’t imagine Britain.
In the UK there’s a bunch of government and company databases, and coalescing them isn’t just hard, in some cases it’s not even possible.
You can ask a company for specific details on a person, and they can make a “reasonable effort” to get the data. But if they mishandle the request (maybe your name has accents?) then the government gets no information.
The easier it gets, the easier it can be for them to excercise power over you, and right now there’s sufficient reason to be worried about that. The current government is liberally using the fascistic powers that the previous government created.
In the UK there’s a bunch of government and company databases, and coalescing them isn’t just hard, in some cases it’s not even possible.
You can ask a company for specific details on a person, and they can make a “reasonable effort” to get the data. But if they mishandle the request (maybe your name has accents?) then the government gets no information.
The easier it gets, the easier it can be for them to excercise power over you, and right now there’s sufficient reason to be worried about that. The current government is liberally using the fascistic powers that the previous government created.