I saw an interesting video suggesting that the real motivation is to give megacorps like Google a new business acting as "banks" for identity, i.e. the Internet would get so inconvenient that people would just save their identity with Google (or Meta, etc) and then use them to log in to other websites.
I probably explained it badly, but the video I saw is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAd-OOrdyMw
People in the comments pointed out that those companies would also have the ability to delete or suspend your identity verification if you did something they didn't like (or refused to do something they wanted). Reminds me of the SIN from Shadowrun .
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You mean sharing their real identity with online companies who will sell and/or lose it to hackers doesn’t make children sAfE oNLinE??!!?!11?!
balder1991@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hopefully this will happen sooner than later and change people’s minds about the whole thing.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yeah, it won’t be good, but it’s going to happen eventually. Sooner is better.
rozodru@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If the recent Tea App crap is anything to go by doesn’t even require a hacker for someone to gain access to your info. Just takes more companies using AI to build shit without security and someone will just happen to find their open to the public firebase bucket.