Yeah, proving residential addresses is something required for AML/KYC purposes as well. It'd be interesting to find a way to make that process faster and more reliable, though I don't have any great ideas. I thought about something like "use OAuth to grant website.com access to your Google location history" on the assumption that a long term location history is somewhat hard to forge, but then again I don't know how hard they think it is to forge utility bills. It seems strange that they'd consider a credit card bill easy to forge given that to get one you need a bank account, and the bank itself does a check of residential address.
I guess they figure for utilities you wouldn't be paying them unless you were living there. I find Google location history even more problematic though, because usually Google misses me by about 35 - 45 miles.
That may be right but I think they make it look like that so one can think that "oh they can't even trace me on the map". I guess they made a protocol to protect individuals from another civilian snoop but not from the NSA.
