If you don’t see each other face to face, how do you know who you are dealing with? This is important and it makes e-identity solutions a prerequisite for all e-business and e-commerce including online dating.
Sometimes someone comes up with a novel idea on how to verify that you are who you claim to be. CheckedProfile.com has a pretty creative process:
“You upload your profile picture. The site then provides a custom identifier that is unique to that picture. You then write the identifier on a sheet of paper and take a picture of yourself holding that page. With those two pictures uploaded and a flled-out CheckedProfile account, an “expert profile checker” verifies that the person in both images is the same. You are then free to use your CheckedProfile verified photograph any where you want to prove your real identity online.” Source: Techcrunch.com
Clever, although it seems fraught with problems.
Make sure to check out the comments at TechCrunch where founder Ben Way actively tries to rebuff the criticism.
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