Nothing to hide doesn’t mean everything to share. When it comes to id verification specifically talk about:

1. how storing millions of IDs will be a tempting honeypot for hackers, making data breaches much more likely and much more common.
2. how these companies will become a digital playground for traffickers searching through leaked IDs, looking for potential trafficking victims.
3. how these laws could lead to stalking, harassment, and get people murdered or raped.
4. how these laws could escalate political violence in a society already divided and rife with polarization. Having access to someone’s address, searching their address on Google Maps, seeing a political sign in the yard is political violence waiting to happen.
5. how these laws could very well lead to someone committing suicide after their ID is leaked and posted, which led to them being stalked or harassed.

When people doubt you or accuse you of paranoia, concern trolling, or fear mongering:

1. Remind them about the Tea app incident (in which 13,000 IDs were leaked and posted online) and ask what if Facebook, Instagram, or Reddit is next?
2. Tell them: Don’t underestimate hackers and don’t trust these companies to delete your information.
3. Tell them: Don’t underestimate what people are actually capable of and the kinds of ideas that go through people’s heads (there are some really bad people and really unhinged people in the world).
4. Even accuse your politicians and lawmakers of backing or being behind human trafficking rings if you have to to let them know how serious these risks are.

Also remind them that wanting surveillance to make sure everyone is following the law is bad because not all laws are good! Civil disobedience is a powerful tool against tyranny and we must protect it. I don’t want a society where no one breaks the law.