We need better international KYC methods which provide privacy protection to the extend needed for the application. We have NFC passports; the North Koreans don

We need better international KYC methods which provide privacy protection to the extend needed for the application. We have NFC passports; the North Koreans don’t have access to those while stealing identities and for instance the iPhone can scan them. It is an extra hurdle, making it very hard to do this at any scale (like 1000s) and then it’s not really worth it anymore. Note though that this is a problem on sites like upwork too; many ‘western’ people turn out to be Chinese, North Korean, Middle Eastern or Indian. They have AI or stolen ‘white male’ pictures and names; they have excuses why they don’t want to call with you or the call is rather bad quality (AI with bad quality faking filters?). Upwork doesn’t care, but I hear a growing amount of companies falling for it. Mind you; most of these are not a problem in technical sense, however if you think you hired someone with a solid grip of the english language, cultural connections, chances to meet up irl etc, and of course the lying from the outside, makes it a problem.