I don't expect anonymity from the government (I suspect that would be a fairly absurd goal given current technology). Rather, I expect that absolutely no one other than the government should ever have access to such data.
My apologies for the misunderstanding. That's a high hill to climb, and I recommend engaging with policymakers to see that sort of legislation crafted and sponsored.
Why is that a high hill to climb? It's more like a slippery slope. Until recently it was definitely the expectation that your government information would stay only IN the government.
It seems wasteful to spend this thread rehasing the utter disregard the legislative branch has for enacting strong data and privacy legislation (California's CCPA aside), Equifax's willful ignorance towards data security with no consequences for them and no recourse for citizens who had their data leaked, etc. It's not easy, it hasn't been done yet, and it's a high hill to climb. Have to get in front of the folks who write the law, who currently aren't making it a priority.
> My apologies for the misunderstanding. That's a high hill to climb, and I recommend engaging with policymakers to see that sort of legislation crafted and sponsored.
It might be a high hill, though softening to allow contractors involved in providing the service to know but requiring them to observe privacy rules similar to what would apply in the healthcare space under HIPAA, would make it much lower.
At the state level, for either version, I would recommend, if possible in your state, you to work with advocacy organizations who are willing to sponsor a public ballot initiative rather than focussing on policymakers alone; while industry insiders can and will buy ads against ballot measures, they can't cut them off by compromising strategically targeted legislators the way they often can bills in the legislature.
