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Obama briefly pitched the idea of this. A lot of people worried that the government providing services with the ability to verify identities would kill anomenlt
by space_fountain 2y ago
Obama briefly pitched the idea of this. A lot of people worried that the government providing services with the ability to verify identities would kill anomenlty online and it died.
- pphysch 2y agoAnd yet anonymity/privacy is already dead for the average consumer, and we don't get to benefit from a public, reputable SSO service...
- Terr_ 2y agoFor example, the IRS's free online filing thingy this year involves a third-party private company doing the ID checking and proprietary facial recognition database shit. Hell, they didn't even white-label it behind a .gov domain and UI, which means they're training taxpayers to fall for phishing scams by disclosing their most sensitive data to any dang company with a spiffy web page and plausible-sounding domain name and a "Trusted By The IRS!" image sticker.