Why can't they be both?
15 karma · joined September 25, 2016
What if you apply for a state benefits (e.g. benefits for your children, or student state grants)? These kind of services being accessible online are common in the Nordics and when authenticating the service provider would need to know a lot of personal information such as name, age, adress or email, previous given benefits records from other service providers, current loan debt status, university registration status, bank account nr, family members etc...
Zero knowledge proof in identity is a thing, but then the assurance of identity falls on a third party that has to verify your identity. There is also Self-Sovereign Identity and user-centric identity management which many consider the future of identity. But even in that case, most often a third party needs to at least maintain the infrastructure of where your identity is stored.