153M licenses for sale online sparks ZKP age-verification debate
BecauseCulture · x · 2026-09-03
- A viral post claims 153 million driver's licenses are being sold online, a fallout of services forcing users to hand over photo IDs with home addresses to databases that keep getting breached.
- BecauseCulture argues zero-knowledge proofs could verify only what's needed (e.g. age), citing the World network's Orb as scary-looking but less risky than centralized data honeypots.
- Core point: hotels, phone shops, crypto exchanges and app stores could all use minimal-disclosure identity proofing instead of raw ID uploads.
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