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by embracing methods of verifying that a user is a real person
edit: to add this example
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-digital-identity-and-attributes-trust-framework-beta-version/uk-digital-identity-and-attributes-trust-framework-beta-version
Such as?
Making them multiply prime numbers.
:D
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/digital-identity
No thanks. Hard pass
why?
I'm not comfortable uploading things like my passport to entities that have proven time and time again that they don't care about data security.
fair enough
in this case it would be the british government that already has my passport and driver license photos stored digitally so this would just be to validate a digital login as a real person
would that change your mind at all?
Usually by tying your real world identity to your screen name, with your ID or mail or something.
Thats the opposite of something to embrace.
Agreed, but that's hasn't stopped people before...
...and people will hand it out without question.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/digital-identity
does this government system sound ok in any way?
Sounds like your going to need your ID to rub one out once they get things running.
Hard pass.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/digital-identity
From the article you linked:
Like I said, hard pass.
sorry for spam replying you, i didn't notice it was the same username :)
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/digital-identity
i think it should be anonymized as well so that no PII is associated with your online ids even though they are verified