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0 pointsbserge4y ago0 comments

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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Apocryphon4y ago

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.

knownjorbist4y ago

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/

jlokier4y ago

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?

tommica4y ago

Also known as identity theft

Aerroon4y ago

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.

Sohcahtoa824y ago

If something is given with permission, it's not theft.

Ensorceled4y ago

That's not what is happening in this scenario.

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