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by NiceWayToDoIT 1905 days ago
There are two issue with hashing I can envisage:

1. Nothing user has is truly hash-able, (email can be replaced, there are people with the same name/dob/place of birth, address is not permanent attribute...)

2. Hash key can have duplicates - so those collisions would block different users (probably not for small companies but for FB with 2 billion users something worth considering.)