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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.

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sknowmads@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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- EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Specifically by Equifax.
  
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prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Fuck that. We need to move away from using SSN for literally every-fucking-thing

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- EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s funny because the SS card explicitly states it shouldn’t be used for identification purposes.
  
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Copernican@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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