• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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    6 days ago

    I would also really like to see a governmental permit office that distributes permit numbers on demand which can be used for age verification without revealing ANY information about the person verifying to ANY private entities.

    I want to see this in a bunch of countries.

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      6 days ago

      yeah there’s three organizations that could provide these permits: government, companies, or non-profit organizations. you can just start your own if you have the technical know-how, just to do a proof-of-concept and to show others how it could be done.

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        6 days ago

        No. Private ID Verification Companies should not be allowed. Companies can’t even be trusted to handle fucking credit scores or train tickets.

        Government office or no verification, that is where I stand.

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          Yeah, I think you’re correct, even if a private company was started with the idea not to sell the data collected for this endeavor, or even not to collect identifying information. It would still end up eventually collecting the data and eventually selling the information. And if somehow it didn’t then someone else would compete with that company and then that company would do so.