I've heard it argued that the police and other authorities have the right to know who you are.
Is this really the case? Does a representative of a government have the right to your identity?
If so... is there an extent to which they can know who are you are? The difference here between a vague answer, a trust based assertion, or even a deep proof.
There is a distinction between your identity(who you are) and your legal identity(who the governments papers say you are). Your legal identity is created with your birth certificate and ends with your death certificate.
Legaly you agreed to act under this legal identity when your birth certificate was created but since you where too young to give consent its not legaly binding.
Thats the argument but it would need to go through a judge who wont care about technicality of law as the law itself is a technicality to justify government.
Is this really the case? Does a representative of a government have the right to your identity?
If so... is there an extent to which they can know who are you are? The difference here between a vague answer, a trust based assertion, or even a deep proof.