UK to ban Social Media for under 16s .. will we/EU follow suit? Is it enough?

Estonia and Japan both have decentralised ID's. I am pretty sure that Estonias is compulsory though (I am not definite) and Japans is not.

Estonia have an almost 100% adoption rate, and has had security issues through faults that could have been avoided. The ROCA vulnerability was the most famous. One of the other problems was also that it allowed people to fake being somebody else. Their cards are are around 22 years now, and they still have issues despite being decentralised.

The Japanese card allows for pairing with a lot more technology and I think, is just a number that is tied to all of your information. My (possibly wrong) understanding of it is, that you go into a building similar to something like a passport office and they take all of your data and produce an 11 or 12 digit number that corresponds to that information on their decentralised servers. You can then use that card with the number for many things… BUT… they have had issues too including linking to the wrong people with entire information leaking.

I am not against digital ID in principle, but it is imperative that it is done properly and is (especially in this day and age) 100% private.

I don't trust our incompetent governments (not this one, nor the next one) to be able to do that. I don't trust the EU commission either, especially in light of so many allegations or accusations of corruption and or listening to US big tech in recent times.