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In a better world we would require someone to provide a piece of identification in person, and rather than blindly copying said identification the only informat
by contravariant 2y ago
In a better world we would require someone to provide a piece of identification in person, and rather than blindly copying said identification the only information that is stored is who showed what identification, where, when, and to whom. Signed by all relevant parties.
Instead you've got governments requiring a mere copy of the document as proof, because fuck logic.
Or in the case of the U.S. such a document may very well not exist, because I'm pretty sure SSNs aren't remotely designed to be checked for authenticity.
- ethbr1 2y ago> because I'm pretty sure SSNs aren't remotely designed to be checked for authenticity. I haven't been on the verifier side of this, but I did have a neighbor participate in a passport verification system for a new remote hire job, as the verifier. According to him, there was some basic information listed about how to verify it was an authentic US passport. It'll be curious if we see a move to more forgery-resistant documentation being used for KYC (e.g. passport, RealID DL, etc), coupled with in-person verification (even if something like lawyer-drops-by or go-to-notary).