I heard that in France, they'd use postal office workers to verify people's IDs. It's a brilliant alternative to whatever we're doing in Germany.

We couldn't possibly employ people to solve the problem. Don't you know the post office is a waste of money?

Isn’t that just like Postident in Germany?

Not at all. Postident required going to the post office in person with your ID, and famously omitted a lot of foreign IDs and required an Anmeldung.

What are we doing in Germany?

The options I have seen so far were a) using our digital IDs, which is very handy or b) having a bank verify my identity in person with my ID, which is also pretty good.

These options are not available to recent immigrants, people with foreign documents and people without a registered address. I spent a lot of time working around those limitations.

What is the difference between the second option and how they do it in France? I haven't tried it before, but shouldn't that work with foreign documents or without a registered address as well? Or is it more like that it should work in theory, but in practice those documents just aren't accepted?

Don't we have PostIdent in Germany? At least I used it to open my bank account.

Correction: I meant postal delivery workers. You don't have to leave your house.

That would require training a lot more people to pay very close attention to these matters and intimately know tons of different identity documents... doesn't sound very trustworthy.

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Or in general, a way to digitally sign a tamper-free video recoding made with a camera from a reputable manufacturer. Maybe a regular iPhone already has enough integrity checks and security contexts to achieve this.

I'm almost certain that an iPhone camera can go that, and the reason that Apple controls the full stack. It's necessary but not sufficient, since it's missing the identity maintenance when media leaves the device. Apple would have to place a cryptographically signed digital watermark into a global blockchain so that the analog hole can be closed. All devices that present that media back to a human would need to verify the contents provenance chain back to the initial capture device.

There's nothing missing technology wise to achieving this but we, at this point, lack the collective will and the regulatory regime. I do foresee a future where this is the norm and that anything you listen to or watch you'll be able to trace back to the device that captured the data.

How exactly would this make money

Instead of having it constantly running, you have to pay to turn it on for a couple of minutes.

That... does not answer my question

Users paying to use the authenticated camera service means it would make money. That seems obvious, so I don't understand what the point of confusion is.

The bus that couldn’t slow down.

It sounds like you're talking about the movie Speed with Elvis Presley and Aubrey Hepburn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtxoM0l0Agg

What

We used to have something similar in NZ. Got removed eventually because of flashing.