Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack

Re:Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light o... by harryh on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @09:46PM (#15659397)

Ya, so I think the big difference between Europe and the US is that you can open a lot of accounts online in the US so there is no opportunity to examine and copy a physical ID card. I can definitely see how that would raise the difficult of pretending to be someone else.

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Re:Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light o... by kuschku on Thursday November 09, 2017 @12:42AM (#15660157)

I just opened a bank account in Germany via an app.

I had a choice between either using my eID for verification, or doing a video call and showing the ID into the camera (in a way that their systems can automatically verify the security measures).

It took 20 minutes to go from nothing to having an account, and being able to move money to ans from it.

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Re:Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light o... by kaybe on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:53AM (#15663388)

Plus there is an option where you either go to the local post office or the postman comes and verifies your ID.

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