> ... and by doing exactly what you're complaining about:
How exactly does requiring people to identify themselves actually protect anyone or slow them down? Their identity system doesn't even work reliably (it's just your classic "verify your ID" scheme), and it failed to verify my ID no matter how I did it, so in the end I gave up. Even assuming it was reliable, I don't see how it stops bad actors from doing it, since we all know how easy it is for most sufficiently resourceful actors to forge IDs, and I suspect these digital ID verification services have all kinds of vulnerabilities that would make them easier to bypass compared to the tools the state has to prove an ID is legit. For the higher tiers of CVP there may be more requirements, but do you seriously think these companies aren't just using AI to verify those tiers too?
How exactly does requiring people to identify themselves actually protect anyone or slow them down? Their identity system doesn't even work reliably (it's just your classic "verify your ID" scheme), and it failed to verify my ID no matter how I did it, so in the end I gave up. Even assuming it was reliable, I don't see how it stops bad actors from doing it, since we all know how easy it is for most sufficiently resourceful actors to forge IDs, and I suspect these digital ID verification services have all kinds of vulnerabilities that would make them easier to bypass compared to the tools the state has to prove an ID is legit. For the higher tiers of CVP there may be more requirements, but do you seriously think these companies aren't just using AI to verify those tiers too?