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proving you are you, to a machine that trusts documents more than faces.
means the process of confirming a person is who they claim to be, using documents, biometrics, or data checks.
from formalized with 20th-century banking and passports, then exploded online after 2000s fraud forced every website to ask for proof before trust.
biggest driveronline fraud losses, not government mandates
weakest linkstill the human reviewing the photo
deepfakesnow beat basic selfie liveness checks
kyc originborn from anti money laundering laws
for instance
know your customer — banks worldwide required by law since 1990s aml rules
aadhaar — india's biometric id covers over 1.3 billion people
apple face id — unlocks iphones for over 1 billion users since 2017