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Recently a lot of EU/UK banks allow you to open an account simply by shooting one or two videos from your phone. You usually have to say something specific (to
by tomp 5y ago
Recently a lot of EU/UK banks allow you to open an account simply by shooting one or two videos from your phone. You usually have to say something specific (to prove it wasn't a pre-recorded video) and also show your ID card / passport as identification, but that's it!
- abecedarius 5y agoHave they not heard of deepfakes? Or is that still harder to pull off than I thought?
- hollerith 5y agoThis is one example (another one is allowing people who cannot read or write to create legally-binding video statements) where it would be handy to be able to prove that a particular video came straight from a camera. This falls under the general heading of "remote attestation" technology (as the person I am replying to probably already knows).
- ajsnigrutin 5y agothat's weird... you can do some stuff here over the phone, but it's a videocall, and you have to record your documents from all angles, but that's for existing customers with a registered phonenumber and banking app. new account is in person only