> Many many services ask for phone number as a proxy for "this is a unique human". This is how we end up with personal accounts as an admin of Facebook ads of

> Many many services ask for phone number as a proxy for "this is a unique human". This is how we end up with personal accounts as an admin of Facebook ads of fortune 500 companies, and the like. By not allowing multiple accounts, you prevent partitioning of life/business, you prevent abused spouses from creating a secret identity to seek help through, you prevent whistleblowers from blowing the whistle, you prevent people from being able to have conversations about part of their life they don't want associating with their identity. > Strong identity should be the default People can have multiple passports! They can choose which passport to show when entering a country. I have a US ID and a Dutch ID, a US social security number and a Dutch one, a US phone number, and a Dutch one. Why should I have the privilege to have multiple accounts while you do not, simply because I moved to another country? > Lost an hour at the Verizon store trying to get my mom a new phone for the holidays only to learn she needs a DL. Why should only people who have driver's licenses be allowed to get a phone? That seems ridiculous. > You get one shot and if you blow it and don't play by the rules your account is banned Since I've moved to the EU, I have many friends who get banned simply because their written English is bad enough to be considered a bot. How does identity prove they are a human and not a human running a bot? Please tell me this. I'm quite interested in this. > In the actual implementation the user is issued a selection of credentials with varying claims and can choose which one to present to any given service. The user only reveals the minimum information they're comfortable sharing with any given service. How is this different than what we already have? I can choose to give a service as little true information as I want. Do you just want some cryptographic user/pass that is attested via a government? What do you do if a government revokes a user's id (aka, deportation, lost id, etc)? Can they still log in? What if it expires, is it still valid for your service? My US driver's license is long expired, but it still asserts my identity even though I can no longer use it to prove I know how to drive. I don't think this is very well thought through, nor is it realistic once it hits any sort of common edge case. I really hope nothing like this ever happens.