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What is the major benefit of something like this? I can't think of a single transaction I've undertaken in the past few months (either online or offline) where
by x1798DE 12y ago
What is the major benefit of something like this? I can't think of a single transaction I've undertaken in the past few months (either online or offline) where it would have been to my advantage to authenticate my real name. I frequently need to authenticate an ongoing relationship (my gym membership, logging in to Amazon Prime), but in none of these situations does it matter who I am, just that I'm the same person I was before. Generally those counterparties get that information anyway, but I consider that information leakage an artifact of the authentication process, not a beneficial feature of the system.
We already have solid methods for identifying ourselves as the same person as we used to be (various public keys, for example), and if we want to establish a consistent identity across multiple contexts/domains, we also have that option. This really doesn't benefit consumers in any way.
- GFischer 12y agoFor government paperwork, it definitely helps to authenticate who you are. As long as you need to access government services, I'd rather have them be efficient. My country has had national IDs for close to a century, and they make life a lot easier for databases and programming :)
- Goronmon 12y agoMy country has had national IDs for close to a century, and they make life a lot easier for databases and programming Strange, from my perspective, this seems like a negative result.
- scotty79 12y agoI couldn't buy a flat without manually signing some papers at notary office and presenting my government issued physical id. I cannot convincingly prove that I entered any work agreement I did online. I cannot proove anything anyone committed to online.
- danmaz74 12y agoMaybe in the past few months you never transacted with your Country's public administration. I have, and I would like very much to do 90% of those interactions online, without having to personal relay information from one part of the administration to another part.
- x1798DE 12y agoIt's very easy for me to make a single in-band communication with my government (show up one day, show that I'm me) and establish login credentials proving that I'm me. I see no advantage to a general online identification system that goes beyond that.
- jkaljundi 12y agoSo you can show up once at one institution and after that do everything in your life online using those credentials you acquired, either with private persons, companies or state/public institutions?
- staz 12y agoI'm from Belgium where we have a national electronic id. It's main use to me is filing my tax online. Supposedly I can also do certain administrative task with it but I have needed it at the moment.
- jkaljundi 12y agoHow about voting in elections on the Internet or on your mobile? Giving any binding signatures online or via mobile? Any official communications with government services where both sides need to know who the other is, not just who they say they are? Legally binding online agreements between private parties?