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We basically had the same idea ! I wrote up a post about it, but didn't publish to avoid duplicates. Here's the text.
Websites often ask for your first and last name, as well as your birthdate. When making a purchase, even for digital goods, they ask your full legal adress.
While Proton Pass does have an alias generator, this is useless if you end up giving your name and address.
I would love it if in the new Identities tool, You could have a "anonymous" profile where it would each time generate a new alias, a new name and last name, and a new address.
Also, it would be nice if you could specify your zip code and country that would remain the same, because the zip code is used for card verification, but the rest of the address is actually not used.
I also believe this should be two or three different modes.
The first one will be spoofing. So for the name you will try to just type "NAME". For the last name you will just try to type "NAME". For the address you will just put " STREET", "CITY", etc. So you will not pretend to be someone random, you just pretend to not want to put your information.
The second one could be just the same info for everyone, so like "Random Nonexistent Name, Adress (at a Proton mailbox)".
And the third one will be just a random address and a random name.Of course I understand that some of these regions might not be possible for Proton to implement for legal reasons. But I believe that generating random non-existent names and addresses should at least be possible and the minimum that should be implemented. I also believe it is the user responsibility to use these tools appropriately.
Some might say that you could already do all of this yourself, but always finding random names that are different is difficult and using tools on the web takes a lot of time.
What does the community think ? I believe this could really put Proton ahead in a comprehensive tool for identity management!
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I understand the idea but this will introduce a backdoor into Proton.
What could be a solution though is something like 1 Password is doing.
On the one hand they have something called emergency kit which is basically a PDF with your password and your recovery key.
This could be kept (printed form) in a safe at your home or maybe at the bank. https://support.1password.com/emergency-kit/
On the other hand, they have "Family Managers" which can hold a recovery key of the family members. But those essentially become the Master accounts of multiple other accounts and this can create a vulnerability. It's not a very big deal for most people though.
https://support.1password.com/family-organizer/#add-or-remove-a-family-organizer
https://support.1password.com/family-recovery-plan/