In the United States commonly a notary public is used to certify the identity of a person signing forms and supplying identification. So that might be an option for some people. Otherwise just having them provide ID and sign a form stating it is valid provides a measure of protection for the organization.
Sydney aka FloNight
On 5/1/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/05/07, Mohamed Magdy mohamed.m.k@gmail.com wrote:
Seriously though, I think Shi was talking about how to make sure that whatever information the user is sending are the truth..and that s/he isn't forging it somehow...
Fairly obviously, this isn't going to be forgery proof. Its power would be as an arse-covering measure in case a volunteer with private info turns evil or crazy. That is, the Foundation has the identity info supplied by the volunteer, and if they lied then the volunteer is the liar.
- d.
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