Your government id card is not widely adopted as method of authentification, i guess. This is where this new pass key approach comes in. My concern is, that this new method might completely replace old fashioned passwords. And once every one is used to have a hardware token, the next step of only accepting or selling government approved devices is a small one. This could could ultimately make anonymity impossible. Because you dont control the hardware or the spec.

Imagine being required to have and use your govID for simply everything, because there is no alternative.

This is not a risk of secure authentification, which passwords can also provide.

$Corps loved to harvest phone numbers as a second factor despite a second fall back email address would be at least as secure as SS7 communication. But phone numbers are tied more strongly to your identity so more valuable for the data brokers.

This is the same thing actually. Tieing identity to something you have and not something you alone know. Something external.

Having a single external dependency for all your identities sounds like a good idea to you? For facists and data brokers it certainly does.

To me, this is an attack on anonymity and i know that i sound paranoid. Lets wait for the enshitening.