#France supports its citizens by helping them #watermark their documents, giving them irrevocable evidence of ownership through the webapp "Filigrane facile": https://filigrane.beta.gouv.fr/
And the site is #OpenSource.
Together with its companion site "Dossier facile", using the Vue framework, the entire project is under the MIT license on GitHub: https://github.com/MTES-MCT/Dossier-Facile-Frontend and https://github.com/MTES-MCT/dossierfacile-backend
This is so cool to have government departments building #FLOSS.
h/t @luna
The document is effectively converted to an image, digitally watermarked with text you choose, and internally timestamped. The image is converted to a pdf, and saved. A link to the document is given to you; the document is deleted when downloaded, or 24 hours later.
Proof of ownership is in both the watermark you choose (e.g. "Rental Documents for Amgine @ 369 Rue Rocher #1") and the document's timestamp, which will match the timestamp within the image.
@slink @Amgine There is "Dossier facile" for that. You can upload all the documents, they certify that they are good, and they watermark it.
https://www.dossierfacile.logement.gouv.fr/
The doc is here: https://docs.dossierfacile.logement.gouv.fr/
@luna @Amgine @luna @Amgine it might be because i do not understand french well enough, but how does the attestation work? if received a watermaked document, how could i validate that it is still unmodified?
i actually did try to find that answer on the site, and failed.
thank you for your answers so far, i think this is an interesting problem to solve.
I will need to get to a computer to check. Looking at the links on my phone I am guessing the documents are manually checked, ensuring the forms are completely filled out, possibly some data validated. Then the docs are watermarked, timestamped, a hash is likely calculated, and then a download link generated.
The hash will have a very low chance of collisions, and with the time stamp constitute proof of originality. The documents include submitter’s identifying information.
Think name, driver’s license/government identification/health/tax/social number(s), etc.