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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by bserge on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @04:22AM (#28680460)
New service: subscription identity - buy a real identity of a real person from some poor country and use it for yourself in the glorious developed world.

Official government issued ID, passport, photos, video verification available for a fee.

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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by Apocryphon on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:25AM (#28680802)
There are already marketing scams that involve renting out one's Facebook account so that third party entities can make posts with them:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...

Come to think of it, that could be a way to get accounts with which to use Oculus with.

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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by knownjorbist on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @09:29PM (#28689339)
BrightID validates you as real and unique, but without revealing any actual IRL information to people consuming and using the identity via their apps.

https://www.brightid.org/

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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by jlokier on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @08:55AM (#28692949)
Does the uniqueness criterion prevent it from being useful to people who wanr to create multiple, independent accounts as is being discussed in this thread?
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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by tommica on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:00AM (#28680653)
Also known as identity theft
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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by Aerroon on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:28AM (#28680817)
If you don't steal someone's identity is it still identity theft? Ie they give use of their identity to you voluntarily for using these services.
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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by Sohcahtoa82 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @12:41PM (#28684753)
If something is given with permission, it's not theft.
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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by Ensorceled on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:13AM (#28681869)
That's not what is happening in this scenario.
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