This was a thought that I held while watching this geopolitical summary of the year by #warfronts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXIO...

Wow, that is robbery on the highest level that I've ever seen.

I think we need a well-made online id-system that can verify specific facts about the user. For the site, the API should yield only an abstract hash of the users ID unique for the site+user, and some booleans, such as "user is adult" or "user lives in XYZ" (for petitions) or other useful metrics.