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Singapore has this figured out, it's not THAT hard, especially when you have a solid national identity / SSO design. You can use phone number or national ID nu
by hatenberg 6y ago
Singapore has this figured out, it's not THAT hard, especially when you have a solid national identity / SSO design.
You can use phone number or national ID number to register and that's all that is needed but you can set a display name freely if you don't want your name to leak via reverse lookup.
Generating QR also is available right in app and accepted pretty much universal via the same app you can check in for contact tracing or logging into government services or banks. Opening an account now is as simple as confirming a personal data sharing request sent to your app - no more paper forms
https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/singpass-to-be-upgraded-to-nrics-digital-equivalent https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/singpass-to-be-upgraded-to...
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- ascorbic 6y agoThis is a different issue. It's not about verifying your own identity, it's about verifying the account number when making a payment to somebody else. The name on their account must exactly match the one that you entered or you get a warning.
- hatenberg 6y agoIt solves the same problem by using national identifier/phone number and displaying the nickname which can be easily verified. The national ID has a checksum letter appended so simple typos are not very likely.
- cutemonster 6y agoCannot someone else use the same nickname?