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Re:IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access by BenjiWiebe on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @04:15PM (#30000250)
If you had an ID system that allowed you to get multiple unconnected IDs, what would prevent someone from getting 10 million of them and casting 10 million votes in an election? Or even just having 2 or 3 and claiming stimulus checks or welfare or disability or whatever?

Doesn't the government have to be able to uniquely identify you to even have a chance at providing services equally to everyone?

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Re:IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access by csdvrx on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @07:26PM (#30002520)
1. it remains to be seen, 2. should it happen, it would be illegal and expose the perpetrators to jail time

Overall, I'm not so sure the status-quo is worth the tradeoff, especially when accumulated at the population level (10 000 people commiting stimulus check fraud is what, 0.01% of the population?)

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