A process for validating the identity of individuals and the individuals' belonging to a group, organization or large community of millions of people, as well as within computer environments and in real life, wherein an individual concerned requests the validation of an individual's identity; the individual concerned chooses the validation level wherein he or she seeks to be validated; the requirements are consulted for the individual to validate his or her own identity at the chosen validation level; the individual concerned is informed about the requirements to validate the user's identity; the individual concerned decides whether to continue with the validation process at the chosen level of validation or chooses to change the level of validation; the individual concerned enters data of the individual who will validate his or her own data and data from the individuals, or the verifiers who will validate his or her identity; the verifiers receive a set of validation questions that has to be answered in order to validate the identity of the individual; and the answers from the verifiers are compared with data of the individual who will validate his or her own identity to determine if such answers are satisfactory.