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Re:Stripe Identity by karaterobot on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:54PM (#27510184)
This is one of those suggestions where I can immediately see some downsides, and am struggling to think of upsides, though I'm sure they exist.

1. I don't trust my government to have better security than anybody else.

2. I'm worried that I would lose the ability to opt out of a government-provided IaaS. Unlike Stripe, and I can't avoid using the government even if I try really hard. They already have my identity, so my privacy is dependent upon whatever their current policy happens to be. I do not trust unknown future administrations not to sell my data to the highest bidder.

3. The U.S. government has an... uneven track record delivering services and software, especially when there is no competition.

Those are my anxieties: what are the advantages to this approach that I'm not seeing?

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Re:Stripe Identity by lotsofpulp on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:35PM (#27510991)
The advantage is the government is the one liable for it working. Right now, I’m at the mercy of ATT/Verizon/T-Mobile keeping my phone number working for identification purposes. And they have no legal mandate to continue doing that, and I have no recourse if they stop doing that for whatever reason.

It is all the same reasons the government does not outsource issuing of passports. It needs to be from an official source with legal protections.

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