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On the other side of that, there is such thing as too much friction.

Shortly before BBVA closed them, I was in a back-and-forth to open an account with Simple.

First, my ID was too shiny, then it wasn't black and white, then it wasn't color, then they wanted a picture of my apartment building, then ...

it was just on and on and on for three weeks. It got to the point where I asked what exactly they wanted and they literally told me that they cannot tell me because it would allow me to commit fraud. I asked if I could talk directly to their fraud team to figure out what exactly: nope. Can't do that, they can't talk to you.

So I was expected to either read their minds or play infinite whack-a-mole with them where they say one thing in one email then say the opposite in the next.




Yes, no problem with that. Eventually a long standing established digital identity is needed. Provided by anyone, state, bank, etc. Opening a new one should be easy though, but risk assessment should be done at every step (as the account gains new trust in whatever system).


Correct.

This achievement then unlocks Privacy technology.

Currently, PII must be stored as plaintext. Required for matching records across systems.

Once UUIDs are used, all data at rest, at the field level, can be encrypted.

cite: Book Translucent Databases 2nd ed.




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