An ID card, with a tattoo of a QR code for scanning. Christians will love that. Something something mark, something something beast. Haha
Comment on Nikki Haley vows to abolish anonymous social media accounts: 'It's a national security threat'
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
So how is she going to make them non-anonymous in a way that businesses can properly verify identity? Does every single social media site need to have its own ID analysis system for every state-ID? I mean that seems like it would be ridiculously hard.
For that to be practical, they’d need something nation-wide, and probably digital.
So, does she want to suggest to her fanbase a national digital ID? How would htat go?
ohlaph@lemmy.world 10 months ago
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 10 months ago
In some countries this would be dead simple; look at the nordics, where there are government supported, nationwide systems that verifies identity (you have to physically show up with your passport to collect your set up log in details).
I’d be quite happy if social media offered a way to link your identity in this way, but it’s quite a stretch to mandate it.
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It wouldn’t be difficult. Online age verification systems already exist for stuff like vaping supplies.
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To be fair, we all already use a national id with the social security numbers.
So pretty simply, the government would set up a SS number verification API, tech companies would call that, and use it to verify who you are.
It’s a terrible idea and I hate it, but that’s probably how it would work.
sknowmads@dormi.zone 10 months ago
Except SS is a terrible form of authentication that is compromised already by the credit-reporting agencies for a significant fraction of American citizens.
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Specifically by Equifax.
prole@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Fuck that. We need to move away from using SSN for literally every-fucking-thing
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s funny because the SS card explicitly states it shouldn’t be used for identification purposes.
Copernican@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes. I’m wondering if the identity would need to be verified and known/published to the social media site, or just verified to confirm not some Russian disinformation troll. Is there a way to use tokens, or hashes to allow a website to confirm if multiple accounts are the same user without knowing who the users are. I hate this all too, but if it had to be done maybe there’s a way to still protect some anonymity but allow verification.