Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts

Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by prepend on Sunday December 31, 2023 @09:36AM (#38824319)

I think email plus a robust protocol for resolving changes works as good as can get.

For important stuff like banks and pensions they also have phone and physical address, so there’s a way to reconcile things like email changes, as rare as they are.

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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by toomuchtodo on Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:35AM (#38824721)

US example. Financial services orgs have your social security number. Perhaps they should be able to forward a message to the US gov to forward it to the citizen stakeholder through a government messaging delivery platform. This ensures continuity of communication but does not allow orgs to lookup emails with loose data governance (and all that leads to).

Login.gov is very good from a federal gov idp perspective, and I’m hoping it slowly develops into supporting a national ID and ubiquitous identity proofing to squash identity fraud but also streamline gov digital service delivery.

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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by _kb on Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:55AM (#38824892)

This is very similar to what's happening with the Australian Digital ID Bill [0].

[0]: https://www.digitalidentity.gov.au/digital-id-bill

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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by tacocataco on Monday January 01, 2024 @11:54PM (#38838257)

I'm surprised the USPS doesn't offer email addresses. Seems pretty in line with what they do.

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