cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3291604
Thanks to Popcrave https://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1691852136236327316?s=46&t=lcH0dp9biwkMEBKsRQeVeQ
Who here is going to put their ID and photo on X/Twitter
Sure, I’ll give my ID and personal details to Elon Musk. He seems like a perfectly rational adult. /s
Giving your ID to a company majority owned by the Saudi government what could go wrong?
What? Twitter is majority owned by Musk, by a very very large margin. Not that giving your info to Musk is any better than giving it to the Saudi government.
But bin Talal is the largest investor in it - and pretty much since Elon is so in debt, pretty much he and the banks are in control.
Less than 2B of the 44B was from bin Talal… They are the second largest investor behind Musk but there is a ginormous gap between first and second.
Musk’s purchase of Twitter was secured with funding from a number of investors, including Larry Ellison, the co-founder of software company Oracle, and Qatar Holding, which is controlled by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund.
I’m sure X security is flawless and this info will never be stolen. This definitely won’t make them an even bigger target for hackers.
This is what the Internet will look like if the US government passes KOSA
If they make this mandatory in any way later you can probably expect half of Japan to stop using Twitter due to their privacy laws
I believe this is only for users that want the blue tick in which case it sort of makes sense that to be “verified” means they infact have verified that you are who you claim to be.
Requiring a picture of you ID seems very 2005 though
Steam does the exact same thing if you want to publish a game as a sole proprietor. Picture of both sides of ID then selfie with ID.
Though it’s a big difference to comply with business KYC requirements than to simply have a cool icon by your username.
Requiring a picture of you ID seems very 2005 though
What’s the more 2023/contemporary alternative for verification?
Fully sequenced genome with attached dickpick and certified bathwater sample?
Here in Germany I think our ID cards use NFC, I can identify for Government related stuff by pressing my ID card on my phone. Last time I did this for some free energy cost related money from the government due to the war.
EDIT: Here’s an explanation I saw earlier of how it’s done in Finland:
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.
seems like some creepy “Big Brother” shit
Haha why the fuck would anyone do this for some social media? :)
looks over to Facebook
The majority will always just do what the site says I guess.
Honestly it should be illegal for the site to ask for this
Oh definitely. No one cares unless it personally affects them
No one cares of it’s obvious how it immediately affects them. The problem with uploading sensitive data to the Internet is more subtle, because it usually doesn’t affect you right away. But once you’ve uploaded it, it will be there for many years waiting to be breached…
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