[horsawlarway]

> In practice this means no rooted/jailbroken phones.

Personally - this is less acceptable to me than just having the site collect my image/id.

I'd support just putting the id in a dedicated device (ex - gov issues smart key) or just accepting that sometimes people will share id info (just like... physical ids).

It doesn't even close all the doors to transferring ids - since I can still just hand someone a phone (just like... physical ids).

[echoangle]

If you use physical ids to verify your identity, they normally verify that your face matches the image on the id, no? That’s not possible for web id.

[rolph]

Doppelgängers Don’t Just Look Alike—They Also Share DNA

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/doppelgangers-dont...

[echoangle]

Yeah, but being able to share Id with someone who happens to look eerily like you is different from just handing people your ID and they are able to use it like it was implied. That’s not how IDs are used.

[horsawlarway]

My experience has been that absolutely no one cares, as long as they could be construed to be "somewhat similar".

Ex - People change hair color, lose a boat load of weight, wear eye-color changing contacts, drastically change hair styles (facial and normal) etc...

No one bats an eye at an ID that "only sorta vaguely resembles you" outside of a very limited subset of places (the only one I can actually think of is Customs while traveling).

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So my take is that as long as the gender appears similar and the ethnicity seems "close enough"... the store is still going to sell you alcohol, the bar is going to let you in, and the movie theater is going to sell you tickets.