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If anyone needs a Stripe Atlas alternative that doesn't require SSN and also less expensive ($350 vs Stripes $500 + $400/yr) check out https://www.blook.io/stripe-atlas-alternative
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I think we need a worldwide, federated identity system. There should be multiple identity providers, mostly governments and organizations who already have lots of info about you, for example banks. This already works in Poland and several other european countries. Such organizations should verify that you are you the way they currently do, and give you a way of authorizing yourself, i.e. sms, mobile app, one time pas…
If we had a worldwide, federated identity system, there's a problem with this I can already see: what's stopping nation's like China from expanding their social credit system to the population of the world then, against their will for example? For what purpose, I can't know, but it doesn't seem ideal. On one hand, it would be incredibly useful to only ever have to deal with one service or standard for identities (and…
Here I am posting a picture of Winnie The Pooh which I know Xi Jinping absolutely loves: https://ohmy.disney.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Pooh.jpg and my "social credit" is presumably now at zero.
Thankfully I am not in China, never will be, so even if the Chinese social credit system hates me I can still take a train, get on a plane, etc.
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For whatever reason there seems to be a semi-official version hosted by Vermont: https://ago.vermont.gov/blog/2019/12/31/stripe-legalinc-noti...
Oh jesus https://ago.vermont.gov/blog/category/security-breaches/ There's 63 pages.
University of Notice of Data Breach to Consumers
https://ago.vermont.gov/blog/2019/10/02/university-of-notice...
