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Yes, It’s Come To This: Social Network Uses Selfies As An Identity Credential

Many people see the combination of social networks and smartphone cameras as a privacy threat. (They’re right.) Paybookclub aims to turn this around by letting people create secure online identities based on three selfies, not by sharing personal data. They’ll store your ID on blockchain and pay for your posts in Bitcoin. The whole thing looks pretty screwy but it’s interesting to see them promote it using a privacy angle.