Is bot spam rampant on discord or something? Are less invasive forms of verification (eg. SMS, credit card, or requiring a deposit) not enough? Can it not be solved via technical means? eg. requiring users to opt-in before receiving messages from a bot?

> And shipping services use Identity when a user is suspected as a fraudster—to double check before creating fraudulent shipping labels.

Yet I can buy hundreds of dollars of goods off amazon (or any other e-commerce site) without uploading my ID and giving them a live video feed of my face.

For both of these use cases, I don't doubt that ID verification provides benefit, I just find the privacy tradeoff to be unacceptable. As an analogy, a store can probably cut down on shoplifting if they performed ID checks at the entrance and kept a visitors log, but I think most people would find that unnecessarily intrusive and would refuse to patronize that store.