Please forgive me if I'm jumping to conclusions here, but I'm guessing you're American.
> What happens if I don't want to identify myself?
In some countries that is not an option. For example, in Portugal when in a public space, the police has the ability to ask for ID if they have a reason. They must first identify themselves, and list the reasons to ask for identification. If you have no valid ID with name and photo, someone that knows you and can attest to your ID can do it, IF they themselves have ID. If you're alone, you can either ask someone to take your documents to where you are, or ask the police to go with you to where you have them. If that is still not possible for whatever reason, they you can be taken into a police station until you're properly identified and your fingerprints are taken.
After all that, if the reason why you were identified lead to nothing you can request for the info on you to be eliminated.
> What happens if poverty does not allow me to carry a digital ID?
Most countries have state issued ID cards. Note, I wrote most, not all.
> What happens if I lose my digital ID wallet or it is compromised?
Same thing that happens when you lose your wallet, I guess. Go to the nearest police station, tell what happened. Then go on from there.
> Also judging by dealing with the average citizen on a daily basis, even securing an iOS device and remembering the iCloud password is beyond their level of care.
People take government stuff more seriously than they do other things. For example, my mother that can't remember her router password knows her hexadecimal password to the IRS website by heart. My in-laws kept the letters from the IRS with the password in a well known place just to use it once a year when they need to fill their forms.
I'm not saying there's implicit trust in governments in the EU, but from the discourse on the internet, it's clear to me that most (western) european citizens trust their government more than Americans, overall.
> I'm not saying there's implicit trust in governments in the EU, but from the discourse on the internet, it's clear to me that most (western) european citizens trust their government more than Americans, overall.
This is absolutely right. And they are fools to do so! The government can write legislation such as the police have the right to see your id, and everyone is meant to show it! This is nothing to do with right or wrong. It can be couched as 'protecting people' whilst being tyrannical.
At least in the US they have access to weaponry to give those government officials pause for thought of they attempt to implement tyranny. Europe is already defanged though - who could fight back, even if they wanted to?
The prospect is rigid stasis - governed by an unelected elite, who have the mechanism of fine grained control over every citizen. Its neo-feudalism via technocracy.
Funnily enough people in the US that bang on about tyranny and guns tend to also bang on about making anyone that looks like a foreigner present documents.
The US military would roll through any amount of Americans with guns.
It is unlikely a large faction of the military would actively become [technical] traitors and actively fight the US military. If they abstain. No big deal. Only a fraction of the military is needed. All the tech would still be available.
The military could spend some months building a TON of drones…get any Allies who are capable, to do the same. A fight of mostly drones and fortified heavier machinery vs normal Americans would be a bloodbath.
The morale of the dying people would be awful. That is a bloodbath. Not a fight against tyranny.
The 18+ cops at Uvalde were scared of one kid with a semi auto. The cops being that scared to do anything to protect the children of their own community while eating up 40% of the budget lends credence to not expecting more local authority and similar weaponized and experienced career folk to be much help. That’s if they are on the people’s side at all.
A look at the downfall of the trucker’s protests in Canada shows how quickly the cops and authorities will look out for themselves far above the cares or issues of the citizens they “serve”. The cops and enough authorities were engaging in disobedience, helping out the protestors, being kind to them. Once they were given more power and money, they went out in full force the next day and treated the protestors that were their peers the day before like leftist protestors. Brutally subduing the protest and ending it.
> What happens if I don't want to identify myself?
In some countries that is not an option. For example, in Portugal when in a public space, the police has the ability to ask for ID if they have a reason. They must first identify themselves, and list the reasons to ask for identification. If you have no valid ID with name and photo, someone that knows you and can attest to your ID can do it, IF they themselves have ID. If you're alone, you can either ask someone to take your documents to where you are, or ask the police to go with you to where you have them. If that is still not possible for whatever reason, they you can be taken into a police station until you're properly identified and your fingerprints are taken.
After all that, if the reason why you were identified lead to nothing you can request for the info on you to be eliminated.
> What happens if poverty does not allow me to carry a digital ID?
Most countries have state issued ID cards. Note, I wrote most, not all.
> What happens if I lose my digital ID wallet or it is compromised?
Same thing that happens when you lose your wallet, I guess. Go to the nearest police station, tell what happened. Then go on from there.
> Also judging by dealing with the average citizen on a daily basis, even securing an iOS device and remembering the iCloud password is beyond their level of care.
People take government stuff more seriously than they do other things. For example, my mother that can't remember her router password knows her hexadecimal password to the IRS website by heart. My in-laws kept the letters from the IRS with the password in a well known place just to use it once a year when they need to fill their forms.
I'm not saying there's implicit trust in governments in the EU, but from the discourse on the internet, it's clear to me that most (western) european citizens trust their government more than Americans, overall.