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What if someone in a government agency just started printing birth certificates and social security cards for everyone? How would anyone know the difference? Like fake IDs on a mass scale.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

How would they be found out, though? When was the last time someone asked for your birth certificate?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Are you an adult living in the US? Because it's pretty much always required if you need a government ID.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

When was the last time someone asked for your birth certificate?

  • Just renewed my driver's licensed and it was required
  • For some reason, I needed it to request a transcript from my college
  • Signing the closing papers on my damn house? Believe it or not (I didn't), birth certificate. No idea why.

Are other countries this obsessed with birth certificates?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I have only ever needed my birth certficate once. When I got married. I was living in a foreign (but still EU-) country at the time; I have no idea if I would have needed it to marry in my own country. It's possible my mom might have needed it when I was little, to get me into elementary school or something, no idea about that. It's definitely not needed for a driver's license or a house. That's ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I didn't need a birth certificate when buying a house. That seems odd.

I also needed one to renew my license. They made it really awesome by rejecting my original birth certificate from the hospital and told me I'd need to pay $70 to get a replacement from some government records office. This isn't even for a real ID or anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Someone will get caught trying to do something illegal with their fraudulent docs, and eventually it will all unravel.