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I often have to use the passport to prove who I say I am within my country. In case I collect a parcel at the post office for example. This with the person at t
by sdoering 4y ago
I often have to use the passport to prove who I say I am within my country. In case I collect a parcel at the post office for example. This with the person at the counter looking at the passport and not doing any scan of it.
So the liability risk model with an added server increases massively.
- kingofsevens 4y agoThere is a black box model of verifying identity without revealing any information. Blockchain might come handy here but I agree on not relying on another server level.
- agubelu 4y agoI think I have a decent technical understanding of how blockchains work, but I still sometimes have trouble understanding how exactly they would work for some proposed applications like this one. Could you please ellaborate? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that the whole point of a blockchain is to update and maintain information in a distributed manner and in a trustless environment. In this case: - Could any person (who finds an appropriate nonce) update this blockchain with whatever information they want? - What information would be stored in it? - Doesn't it make more sense for this kind of data to be centralized rather than distributed? Unless the black box model you mentioned specifically needs a blockchain
- dzhiurgis 4y agoI used to live in NZ where you'd never ever get Id'd like that. That's a bizarre level of personal detail collection. Yet back in Lithuania even to get to talk with a bank about mortgages I have to put my ID number and DOB...