State ID Centralization Is a Single‑Point Risk

A large national identity registry (France's ANTS) was breached, with a hacker advertising millions of citizen records containing names, birth details, addresses and phones. The incident shows how centralized state ID systems can yield mass exposure events that are usable for identity theft, extortion, disinformation, or cross‑border fraud. — If governments continue to centralize sensitive identity data without stronger technical and legal protections, breaches will create recurring national‑security and democratic risks that merit policy reform.