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Comment by toomuchtodo

9 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40961834

TLDR Login.gov, and publishing a circular to allow businesses to use it to identity proof. Push all liability onto the business for losses if this method is not used to identity proof. ID card as ljm mentions, such as a passport card. Very similar to credit card EMV chips and the liability shift from magstripe.

> I don’t know what that would look like but if I had congresses attention I’d like them to fix the problem rather than playing whack-a-mole with banning data sources. I don’t think any actual solutions come from that.

Aggregating data means it can be lost. You must therefore make aggregating and storing data toxic, and impossible to be leaked through eventual mismanagement.