
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday said the U.S. should not create national identification numbers for its citizens, warning against centralizing to much personal information and avoiding a single point of failure in the event of a compromise.Mnuchin said there are “some quarters” in the U.S. that gravitate toward calling for a national ID but said this isn’t the American way.“Whatever solution we develop for identification and authentication must reflect the strong value we place on decentralization,” the Treasury chief…