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This sounds a bit like the Aadhaar system here in India (I can open a bank account without filling out any new forms, just using a finger print reader).. I woul

• adamnemecek 7y ago
  Not quite. With aadhaar, you don't see the data the state has access to. I'm very much concerned with the surveillance however as they say, good fences make good neighbors.
• thephyber 7y ago
  > this lays the grounds for a surveillance state We already have a surveillance state in the USA without the convenience of good digital authentication with tokenized opt-in data-access authentications, as described by GP. I'd rather have the benefits of a more mature authentication system. We in the USA pass around 3-4 strings (Social Security ID, Full Name, Date of Birth, Mother's Maiden Name, sometimes Street Address and/or Zip Code) and that is used as a proxy for Authorization (not even authentication). It's ridiculously easy to get defrauded of your entire life savings (or more) in the US because knowledge of those strings (and sometimes a few more) is enough to someone to get access to a loan, mortgage, a cell phone (possibly porting/transferring from your existing SIM/line) in my name.