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There has never been a requirement for "probable cause" to require identification. That requires only mere suspicion. Police can then use the identification process to refine their suspicion to a higher level (this from cases dating back to the sixties and seventies). There is NOTHING new here, cops have been doing it for thirty and more years. I had it done to me in 1983 for the crime of walking down the sidewalk by a city policeman while walking to work. I completely understood then. The law requiring identification is very old and has been challenged many times. Your information is grossly incorrect and you have an expectation for privacy in public (think about that phrase, privacy in public, it's a myth) that does NOT exist and hasn't for a few decades.
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