(But surely, at some point, if everyone's Dara is available and AI can fake things, KYC will become untenable...and surely, at some point, politicians and bureaucrats will be reasonable...)
KYC is the main problem, because it uses original documents, be careful when displaying original documents, so far I'm also fed up when someone asks for KYC.
In a decentralized system, some people get hacked and scammed. Then, those people lobby the government for centralized protection. Then, the centralized entities get hacked and all data is compromised, but it doesn't feel so personal anymore, so they do not mind.
The government should issue a revocable GPG key to parents instead of an SSN. Parents are responsible for revoking the key with the publication of a new one. Everyone gets a GPG key, which can be used to sign for authentication. We need to end this joke that an SSN is a secret.
How is KYC data still valuable to hackers? Who is going to buy that on the dark net when it's already easily available from many previous leaks? Whose personal data isn't available at this point?
You might be affected by one of the biggest data breaches ever and not even know it.
A recent class action lawsuit filed against Jerico Pictures Inc., a background check company that does business under the name National Public Data, claims that the company was breached by hackers earlier this year.
As a result, the lawsuit says, confidential data for 2.9 billion was exposed and stolen by a hacker group known as USDoD.