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Who here is going to put their ID and photo on X/Twitter

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[-] steve228uk@lemmy.world 649 points 1 year ago

Nobody, absolutely nobody should trust that idiot with your ID.

[-] pizza-bagel@kbin.social 278 points 1 year ago

If you always wanted to leak your ID to a bunch of hackers thanks to poor security practices, this is a great opportunity for you to do so

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[-] mister_monster@monero.town 66 points 1 year ago

It's not about trusting some idiot. It's about attaching your identity to your activities online. I remember when these websites used to advise against doxing yourself.

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[-] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 50 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I'd rather hand it over to the weird guy at the bus stop. At least he's not a billionaire douche bag.

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[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 336 points 1 year ago

Twitter aside, if any website or app ever asks this of you, please nope the fuck out.

[-] sab@kbin.social 115 points 1 year ago

I guess it only occasionally makes sense for government web sites and banks. X might have ambitions to become a bank, so in that sense it might make sense.

So another piece of advice: if twitter ever asks you if you want to start using it for banking, nope the fuck out.

[-] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You Americans should get to this century and start performing digital strong authentications like the rest of us. Sending picture of your ID to anyone is insane :)

How we do it here in Finland is that there are digital identity providers which use bank/mobile carrier to identify you. They then use MFA when identifying you. Any service can use these services to do strong authentication for you. And they don't cost anything for the customer, and is really cheap for the company who wants to identify you. It is also build into the law that you must identify people using these, to avoid identity theft.

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 97 points 1 year ago

We're still trying to decide if slavery was wrong give us some time

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[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 226 points 1 year ago

Don't do this. Delete your Xitter account and use Mastodon instead.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 99 points 1 year ago

Xitter

In my head that's pronounced "shitter"

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago

That is indeed my intent.

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[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 166 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

90s: stay anonymous, be careful with strangers, don't give up any more info than you have to. The internet can be a dangerous place. Also, supervise your kids and have them ask permission to go online.

2010s-2020s: livestream your life 24/7, use real names and emails everywhere when signing up for bullshit, hand your kid a phone and let them go buck wild as well.

How did we stray like this?

[-] Lowburn@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago

It's also ironic that the same generation of parents telling us to be careful online and "don't believe everything you see on TV" are the same ones that get their news from grifter pundits and divisive facebook memes generated by Russian bot farms.

[-] emogu@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

It’s remarkable isn’t it? Now we’re the ones telling our parents to turn off the TV and get off the internet or it’ll rot their brains.

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[-] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 143 points 1 year ago

I, for one, want to thank Elon Musk for graciously backing up my highly sensitive government ID (that has my birthdate, eye color, height, weight), my biometric data, and likeness! It is such a nice thing to centralize all my most sensitive data into one giant honeypot waiting to meltdown. It is made even more appealing after he fired the entire staff responsible for maintaining this honeypot!

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago

Looking forward to the inevitable massive data breach.

[-] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Will be even more interesting when they inevitably hold the data for longer than the 30 days

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[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago

There is absolutely 0 chance I'm sending any documents to the clown in chief

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[-] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 95 points 1 year ago

Man, Elon's got one hell of a boner for WeChat, huh? I honestly feel embarassed for him. WeChat is WeChat because it's Chinese -- there is no secret formula for Elon to steal. The circumstances which created WeChat simply do not exist in the west and IMO it should stay that way.

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[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 82 points 1 year ago

Nobody noticed “Be prepared to take a sefie” !?

[-] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 31 points 1 year ago

I can guarantee that this was pushed out the door without any actual forethought or planning. Because Elon probably decreed that it had to be done now, so the devs were forced to push to prod without any actual testing ahead of time.

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[-] Levsgetso@lemmy.zip 82 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, just take a photo of your id. Surely X can be trusted, right… right guys?

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 33 points 1 year ago

Sure it can. Just wait 'til it also becomes your banking app, keeping your money totally safe, then you'll be able to double trust it. Would space karen x ever lie to anyone? /s

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[-] Merulox@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago

it won't be mandatory, unfortunately. Would've loved to see another fediverse mass migration

[-] gabe@literature.cafe 35 points 1 year ago

The eternal september moment for the fediverse is very much coming

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[-] original_reader@lemm.ee 76 points 1 year ago

Online banks use this method. I am not happy with this either. It's government-regulated, so OK (sort of).

A social media site? No, thank you.

[-] dejf@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Banks are usually bound by KYC (know your customer) laws and are required to verify your identity. Imagine trusting some random third-party company with your photo ID though... Insane.

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[-] couragethebravedog@lemmy.ml 70 points 1 year ago

Exciting times for hackers !

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[-] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean if you want your identity to be stolen, theres other equally fast ways

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

Hahahahaha no.

Besides, what makes them think I even have a government ID? I don't drive and I'd only need a passport if I had to leave the country.

Looooooooots of people don't have ID.

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 year ago

In america maybe. In lots of other countries every adult has an ID

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[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

Looooooooots of people don’t have ID.

In the civilized world, this is pretty endemic to your country and is actually a problem there as I understand.

Personally, where I live, I couldn't even vote or reliably buy alcohol if I didn't have some form of ID to prove my identity or age (okay, I haven't been carded in years, but it COULD happen). This is OK because everyone is mandated to have ID anyway (and it's not in any way difficult to get one), so requiring ID for voting, for an example, doesn't discriminate against poor people like in the US.

That said, X still wouldn't get my ID. I haven't even given it to Google, despite them asking me for it so I could watch music videos with a lil bit of swearing or something (Funny thing being, my YouTube account is about old enough that in a year or 2 it can go buy beer here in the EU)

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[-] noodle@feddit.uk 59 points 1 year ago

I am going to continue not having an account and not having to deal with this.

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[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

Normalizing proving who you are to random online companies. I can't see how this could backfire.

[-] sugarfree@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

Why would anybody do this?

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s literally what I thought about installing Chrome and sharing my browsing history with Google. Why would I get a Facebook account and share my name, my face and my daily activities with the entire world. I thought that this is just pure insanity, and nobody will ever go along with this level of stupidity. Oh, boy was I in for a surprise.

Look who is laughing now that Chrome is the number one browser and many websites are only tested on Chrome. FB has so many users that people think it’s really odd that I’m not there with everyone else.

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[-] nul_user@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago
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[-] gamer@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago

Au10tix

I wonder if Elon demanded they use this company for identity verification because of their creative use of the letter X

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[-] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago

Too bad Twitter didn't already have a fully-functional identity verification system 6 months ago, which didn't require the exposure of any sensitive PII. Would be crazy if that had been a thing, eh?

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[-] Rearsays@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 year ago

I genuinely don’t care about pretty much every other piece of drama related to X but I won’t be giving any social media or my government issued ID that won’t be happening.

[-] highseas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 year ago

Commence operation dick pic

[-] ox0r@jlai.lu 33 points 1 year ago

Humor is now legal on twitter!

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