Germany had identification record systems before they became totalitarian, when Jews were treated as citizens and decorated veterans of WW1 under the law. A person does not know when their government will become totalitarian and cannot rely on legal solutions to data problems.

What you’re saying is that water is wet.

Name a government in existence that functions without a central identification infrastructure of some sort. Having ID isn’t what leads to totalitarianism, it is a ubiquitous fact of having a bureaucracy that delivers services to its citizens.

In most instance, having government id is not a harbinger of risk of totalitarianism. There are more important things to focus on.

>Name a government in existence that functions without a central identification infrastructure of some sort.

Within living memory, the United States of America.

Social Security Numbers Drivers Licenses

And before "but drivers licenses are not national" they effectively are via cooperation between the various states and between the states and the federal government

You were alive when social security was rolled out?