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Old Oct 4, 2017 | 11:25 am
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Originally Posted by stimpy
I love how the media still refers to low level appointees as "czars" when they don't have power to actually change anything. But it would be nice if the US government made this change.

In related news, Poland is making strong advances in producing a national ID smartphone app that is cryptographically controlled and could be used across the EU. We'll see how that goes. It could save many millions in producing physical ID cards, but I'm sure that a lot of people will be against it.

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-poland...-id-cards.html
Something like that likely won't fly in the US--or if it does, we'll be the last to implement it (see: chip cards).

Honestly, I'd be happy if they made it so you have to manually register with the credit bureaus to get a credit file started. That way, you can set up 2FA right off the bat and easily generate one-time PIN codes for creditors when opening new credit.
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