Because some day they will be an adult who needs to know how to do things like buy groceries and pump gas. Hell, a 16 year old can have a car and a job, but not be allowed to pay for anything?
edit: that said , I’ll be using AI generated faces for everything.
I mean there are plenty of legitimate reasons. If you want to give your child financial autonomy so that it can learn to budget, I think an online bank account may be a good idea.
But I don’t get the OPs point though, many banks offer adult-managed accounts until majority that only need an ID, not a face scan.
Go to a branch and set the account up there. No reason they’d need your face. Bonus point of using a local bank: they have to worry about their customers doing a domestic terrorism on them if they fuck them over somehow. So they have more incentive to not do that.
What about onlinebanks? Also a hard no?
Why will a kid need to open an online bank account?
Because some day they will be an adult who needs to know how to do things like buy groceries and pump gas. Hell, a 16 year old can have a car and a job, but not be allowed to pay for anything?
edit: that said , I’ll be using AI generated faces for everything.
Get a regular bank account
I mean there are plenty of legitimate reasons. If you want to give your child financial autonomy so that it can learn to budget, I think an online bank account may be a good idea.
But I don’t get the OPs point though, many banks offer adult-managed accounts until majority that only need an ID, not a face scan.
I feel like you don’t understand the meaning of the word “ever.”
Don’t know how this works in UK - In Poland there are other ways of signing into/registering in banking.
Go to a branch and set the account up there. No reason they’d need your face. Bonus point of using a local bank: they have to worry about their customers doing a domestic terrorism on them if they fuck them over somehow. So they have more incentive to not do that.
Have an adult handle the account. Simple as. They set it up and manage the account to ensure their kids privacy to as much of a degree as they can.