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a protocol where trusted civic authorities could be allowed to confirm someone's identity This is already a solved problem, and without getting the government
by reaperducer 4y ago
a protocol where trusted civic authorities could be allowed to confirm someone's identity
This is already a solved problem, and without getting the government involved.
There are plenty of identification confirmation companies out there. If you've ever requested your credit report, or applied for a new apartment online, you've probably interacted with one.
Oh, but that's an expense. It might costs pennies per user! Google doesn't do expenses. It would rather spend money on rooms full of toys and gourmet catering than on helping people use its own products.
- vkou 4y agoA credit report on John Doe doesn't prove that I'm John Doe, it only tells you whether or not John Doe is likely to pay his bills on time. This thread, in general, is a great example of engineer hubris. It looks at a complicated problem, and all the top discussion sub-threads are highly up-voted non-solutions to it.
- acdha 4y agoThat doesn't show that you're that person, however, only that you've learned some trivia about them — often details which are visible on Facebook, pilferable from their mail, or known to no longer trustwothy family members & friends. My hope would be that we could find a way to reliably fall back on a government ID check since, for example, an abusive ex who knows all of those details doesn't look like their target.