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> - How will identification work? I'm always confused how I can apply for a mortgage / loan (aka a legally binding financial contract) online with just some de
by MuffinFlavored 7y ago
> - How will identification work?
I'm always confused how I can apply for a mortgage / loan (aka a legally binding financial contract) online with just some details like my name + social security number, but this method of identification seems to not be acceptable when discussing voting?
- mijamo 7y agoBecause people are not okay with their voting history being available to anybody, including the government?
- MuffinFlavored 7y agoBanks know what you spend + where. Your smartphone knows what photos you send to who. People put their voting preferences on their lawn + bumper sticker in America. I never knew voting was secretive?
- packet_nerd 7y agoIt really should not be acceptable for financial contracts either. Consumers lost more than 16B to fraud in 2016: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/01/consumers-lost-more-than-16b-to-fraud-and-identity-theft-last-year.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/01/consumers-lost-more-than-16b... The Equifax breach lost data of 145 million Americans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equifax#May%E2%80%93July_2017_data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equifax#May%E2%80%93July_2017_... Passwords are still the norm for online authentication, despite providing terrible user-hostile security. The US social security number is used both as an identifier, and as a static never-changing password.