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by lifeisstillgood 4368 days ago
I do need to dig into SIN for that same reason - it makes sense - I think a lot of government identity and records schemes would get vastly simpler if I put my public key online and encrypted my own records

I discussed it with a govt architect who wanted to get rid of the "bloody database at centre of every application that thinks it needs to store citizens data"

It's a powerful idea