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Kinda. Because the way your identity is verified in such situations (and oftentimes used along with asking for SSN#, to prove identity) tends to be via other as
by lostcolony 9y ago
Kinda. Because the way your identity is verified in such situations (and oftentimes used along with asking for SSN#, to prove identity) tends to be via other associations. "Where have you lived previously" and the like.
Which presents us with the real issue. To verify data means you must also store that data. So every service designed to allow verification of that data becomes a new vulnerability.
Or as succinctly as a prof once said, "Trust is hard".
- dragontamer 9y agoIf only there was a government agency that was tasked with hand-delivering memos to every single American, every single workday of the year.... Such an agency might be able to prove that somebody lives at a particular address with ease. https://www.usps.com/ https://www.usps.com/ ---------- Post Office is seeing a decline in its usability due to Emails. Okay, that's a problem, so give them other work to do. Other useful work, like verification of identities. (IE: send a letter to the address and prove that such and such lives where they say they live).