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That sounds like a good idea! Perhaps expand what notaries do?

It sounds nice. if everyone plays nice. Slip some underpaid gov worker a 50 and suddenly you are someone else. There would need to be abuse provisions put in place. Then a whole org around that too. Not saying it can not be done, but it looks like to me is Google has a poor customer service issue, even if not true. Roping our govs into doing googles customer service seems odd.

> Slip some underpaid gov worker a 50 and suddenly you are someone else.

by that logic, slip some policeman a $50 and they might plant drugs on your enemy or shoot him because he had a wallet that looked like a gun.

Have employees of private conoaniea never been involved in fraud?

It's a real concern, but how is this different from the current ink & paper scenario? I know people who use county notaries to keep important documents and we, as a society, have apparently deemed that an acceptable risk. Is the distinction the potential scope and scale of digital theft?

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