[contravariant]

It does make it kind of hard to verify someone's identity.

That said I think trying to verify someone's identity through online means only became viable a few years ago when everyone had a somewhat working camera and microphone available, and with any luck the risk of deepfakes will cause an early end to the the scourge of people trying to film themselves holding a form of ID.

[RandomLensman]

Online verification of identity might just not suffice for some things or there might be specialized IDs for online purposes etc.

[ghaff]

During COVID brokerages did start allowing online transactions for certain things they didn't used to. However, at least my brokerage has reverted to requiring either a direct or indirect in-person presence.