• jqubed@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    KYC = Know Your Customer, a team I just learned recently. It’s primarily related to financial transactions, to make crimes like money laundering or terrorism financing harder. Up until relatively recently this was something that primarily happened face-to-face, and it doesn’t seem like good controls have been developed for online use.

    I think some ID cards are single-sided, some are double-sided. One of the big problems is most Americans only have a state-issued ID, not a federal one, and the standards vary from state to state. They’ve tried to address this some with minimum standards for state IDs (mainly driver’s licenses) under a program called Real ID (enacted after 9/11 hijackers got state-issued IDs for false identities), but it was still optional for certain purposes, at least until recently. In my state for a long time when renewing your driver’s license it was optional to do the extra paperwork for a Real ID, but then there would be a note on the top that it was not valid for federal identification purposes, such as accessing certain government facilities or boarding an airplane. Since I have a passport I’ve never bothered with it, but it looks like this year getting a Real ID is mandatory when getting or renewing a driver’s license in my state.

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      10 months ago

      Minnesota just extended it to 2025 again. I can’t get into federally secure buildings, but I can board a plane.

      And until I can’t, I’m not going to. Part of me likes to think they haven’t mandated it yet because I’m holding out.

      Which is really because of pure laziness than actual protest

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      10 months ago

      It’s mostly a religious thing. The “left behind” Christians believe a federal ID is the “Mark of the Beast”.