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There is a silver lining in all these data breaches. At some point in time all our data will have been leaked at least once and probably more than once and subsequent leaks will not do any more damage.

The safe assumption would then be to not trust any accounts created online without some good old KYC processes in place requiring live verification of identity.

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But we generate new data that's worth stealing every day

A government created physical token for every person could be the direction we are headed

Alternatively, we might be headed for sane data breach and privacy laws. Something like... if you want to store personal data then pay for an external audit or have your domain confiscated - done.

Exactly this. If companies actually had to face serious penalties for every breach, the frequency of them happening would plummet.

Ever since the enacting of the GDPR I've seen a substantial uptick in the number of companies that take their data liabilities serious.

Not doordash, apparently. Their CS agents and supervisors were completely unaware of GDPR and unable (or unwilling) to delete accounts.

Doordash is headquartered in San Francisco, that might have something to do with it. Do they even operate in Europe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_identity_card

I've had that thought, but then someone steals your token…

Maybe it could be surgically implanted to deter theft

And in the minds of many, the fulfillment of ancient prophecy in that "it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave,e to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, 17so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name" (Revelation 13:16-17, ESV)

I'd prefer "Give me your wallet" to "Give me your arm" any day of the week.

The good ol' biblical mark of the beast

Totally agree! As a bit of self-promotion, my company (Berbix) is trying to solve this by automating ID checks and being the best possible stewards of this sensitive data: http://berbix.com

We've gone to great lengths to secure ID and DL information and have even built a watermarking service to track all access to these images: https://docs.berbix.com/docs/transactions#section-watermarki...

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