10-15-2021, 02:52 AM
An interesting spin on all this liberty and freedom of choice debate is where a business stands versus the individual. It may well be true some individual liberties have been violated and cannot be enforced on the individual, but it's not clear at all that business cannot be forced to be compliant, and I suspect this is where it goes next.
If they make the digital certificate process two-factor, where Part-A comes from the individual and Part-B comes from the business, a bit like PKI, then they can track and trace businesses that fail to comply, simply because some clients will have legitimate Apps and certificates. They may not be able to penalise a fraudulent individual, but they can surely make accepting forgeries very expensive or uncomfortable for the a business. Auditors would quickly see a trend appearing in the trading data for any business that was 'sympathetic' to fraudulent clients.
In effect they can make it so onerous on fraudsters or fraudulent businesses that it potentially becomes impossible to deal!
If they make the digital certificate process two-factor, where Part-A comes from the individual and Part-B comes from the business, a bit like PKI, then they can track and trace businesses that fail to comply, simply because some clients will have legitimate Apps and certificates. They may not be able to penalise a fraudulent individual, but they can surely make accepting forgeries very expensive or uncomfortable for the a business. Auditors would quickly see a trend appearing in the trading data for any business that was 'sympathetic' to fraudulent clients.
In effect they can make it so onerous on fraudsters or fraudulent businesses that it potentially becomes impossible to deal!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"

