> America should not have national ID cards of any kind. Great, except that this now makes fraud a lot easier.
No, it makes establishing trustworthy business transactions slightly harder. Only slightly, and the necessary technology has been off-the-shelf for some time now.
> Today, if you are a bank you don't actually have any good options to verify the identity of a new customer.
The folks at my local credit union and I know each other personally. It would take a "Mission Impossible"-style impersonation to get them to succumb to fraud ("identity theft".)
No, it makes establishing trustworthy business transactions slightly harder. Only slightly, and the necessary technology has been off-the-shelf for some time now.
> Today, if you are a bank you don't actually have any good options to verify the identity of a new customer.
The folks at my local credit union and I know each other personally. It would take a "Mission Impossible"-style impersonation to get them to succumb to fraud ("identity theft".)