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Recently I've signed up with Paddle, and they have opted to verify user identities with Onfido, so they have asked for a government ID and a selfie. I have contacted Paddle and refused to provide a selfie, so they eventually asked me to upload my ID too in place of a selfie and manually approved the submission. Paddle has no excuse for collecting selfies, they are providing services to businesses that can be verified…
This is not how it works. Your NFC ID card establishes that a person that looks like X is named Y. That’s fine, that’s what we get, just less reliably, from a photo of your passport. You will still need to smile for the camera to establish that a) you look sufficiently close to X and b) you appear to be a live human being (as opposed to a photo being held to the camera) The image of your face and the image (NFC captu…
KYC checks are already being tested with electronic IDs, and the identity of the customer is verified by the presence of a government ID, and the input of a PIN. No selfies or similar farces are involved.