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by Seattle3503 599 days ago
If the process required you to verify ID, e.g. a passport + video selfie, some accountability might be possible. But that might be too invasive for many folks.
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This doesn't work because there's a nearly unlimited supply of people willing (out of desperation, drug addiction, or just plain poor decision making) to let bad actors use their IDs.
Also, all that info has been leaked a billion times now, and there are tools to allow real-time filter/overlays of faces to make it even easier.
It's what banks are using now.
These two things are concerning, not reassuring.

Still, an improvement over what they were previously using I guess?