> We need to stop treating knowledge of public data like this as some sort of identity metric. And one step further, such public data should not be used by cor

> We need to stop treating knowledge of public data like this as some sort of identity metric. And one step further, such public data should not be used by corporations / governments to validate (or inform much, beyond "details") the identity of someone. It's just too unreliable and can't be verified. Maybe PGP or similar, hashed from some source biometric data, to allow multiple 'IDs' over a lifetime but 100% verifiable.