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proving you are who your name tag claims, to a system that trusts paper more than faces.
means the act of confirming who or what something is, usually by matching it against a record someone else keeps.
from from latin idem, meaning the same — identification is the ancient bureaucratic art of proving today's you matches yesterday's paperwork.
oldest formseals and signatures, thousands of years old
psychology senseunconsciously adopting traits of someone else
photo idonly standard since early 1900s passports
biometric shiftfingerprints now outnumber signatures as proof