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In Sweden we have a national id number given at birth which can be Luhn checked just like a credit card, and we use a digital id bound to a device with an pin n
by pimmen 9y ago
In Sweden we have a national id number given at birth which can be Luhn checked just like a credit card, and we use a digital id bound to a device with an pin number. We use them both in conjunction for online banking, filing taxes and all kinds of things and we have a dramatically lower rate of identity theft than the US.
The national id has been here for a long, long time and the digital id has been here for more than 10 years.
- donkeyd 9y agoMany Americans are just really afraid of anything being controlled by the government. It's why they keep doing stuff that us Europeans don't understand, like not having strict gun control, not having affordable health care, not having acceptable social security, etcetera. Americans tend to hate government more than they love themselves and others. Having lived in the US it really bothers me, since there are so many great, caring people there that I don't understand why they keep doing what they do.