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Re:A woman's battle to prove she isn't dead by krakov on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:54AM (#27722469)
And yet it is possible to fix given an agreed-upon validator on being alive /being trustable (the french goverment), assuming she still lives by then.

In our decentralized future[1] this kind of error will be impossible to rectify, as long as someone believes you are dead or just untrustable.

1. Companies like https://www.identiq.com/ (they are far from only ones)

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Re:A woman's battle to prove she isn't dead by racnid on Saturday July 03, 2021 @12:28PM (#27722756)
Schemes like that only work if you participate. Even in America we have people that refuse to participate in the birth certificate and social security scheme for better or for (mostly) worse.
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