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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
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Hot fuck on a stick, no! I didn’t sign up for Spoutible because they wanted all that personal information! What are you, a bank? (Oh wait, he WANTS X to be a bank, doesn’t he.)
didn’t Parler have something like this, then their entire DB got hacked handed over to the FBI just after jan 6th, complete with hundreds of videos of the traitors committing crimes that they upload themselves? since Parler didn’t strip any metadata from uploaded media, the feds were able to use it all as evidence and use everyone’s IDs to tie it all to them.
I bet they arrested hundreds of people this way and used tons more of it at the various trials
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.
Yeah huge difference. I’m not sharing my actual PII with a social media website, let alone a centralised one run by a fascist 🤢
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
We have the same in Norway.
I seem to recall some international payment options being able to utilize it.
Same with EU and UK cos GDPR.
Oh boy, that au10tix sales pitch:
Did we mention? We built the technology that provided identity intelligence for airports and border controls. Then we added new superpowers for digital enterprise with the help of machine learning and all that other clever stuff.
From the text on there, you can see it’s probably not that insecure. Au10tix is the company actually doing the identity verification and they’re an Israel-based company that seems to be pretty legit. I bet X only stores the data in-memory while they send it over to the appropriate APIs or something like that.
Not that I trust them anyway with who’s in charge over there.
As a Cyber Security professional I am telling you now, it is not a matter of “if” Au10tix get hacked and leak data it is when.
Everyone should minimise the number of companies with important Personally Identifiable Information to prevent identity theft and other scams.
Companies are not trustworthy while they are motivated solely by profit.
I would hope that people who have embraced the Fediverse concept over corporate options would be more discerning with their personal information.
it infuriates me to no end that so many people are willing to go over to places like blue sky, spoutible, threads. Instead of capitalizing (no pun intended) on this golden opportunity to re-invent social media to be owned by everyone/no one instead of billionaires/corporations/capitalists by embracing the fediverse.
SO! FUCKING! INFURIATING!
The text says that you give X permission to store the image of your id for 30 days. If you trust them to delete it after that, then I don’t know how to help you.
Even if they do delete them, there will be millions of id images stored at any time.
What’s the worst thing that could happen? I mean, we’re already spied on constantly anyways.
Would you mind proxying all your data through my server? I MITM all TLS traffic, but as you’re already being spied on constantly anyways, there’s really no harm in opening yet another possible hole, right?
Sure, DM me the details.
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People eat Elon Musk’s garbage PR like it’s dinner.
Elon will say/do anything to stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Any publicity is good publicity in his eyes. Stop doing the billionaire’s work for him.
This is what the Internet will look like if the US government passes KOSA
I smell a large GDPR fine on the horizon. Mmmmhhh!
That horizon of consequences never seems to come near.
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.
Who here is going to put their ID and photo on X/Twitter
Maybe not so many of the lemmy users but I guess, most normies will probably just give twitter/x all it requests even ID and photo
I assume this is the solution for celebs, public figures to confirm who they are (If they pay for premium)
Privacy? What’s that??
- people
“I haven’t done anything wrong so I have nothing to hide!”
Me too 🙂
Normies absolutely will and they will think you’re crazy for not wanting to.
Not so sure about that, I feel like average people are waking up to technological bullshit like this more and more every year. Yeah there’ll still be an overly high amount of idiots, but I’ve learned that even older people can change and question things like this.
You can only get so many “We’re giving you 2 free years of identity theft protection because we got hacked and your personal information got stolen.” from big companies like your cell phone company, credit check company, etc. before you’re like “Hey, anything I put online can get stolen by criminals…”
Even if you’re a tech-unsavvy type. At some point the light bulbs turns on and you put 2 and 2 together.
Some will say they care about it, but when threatened with having their social media taken away, they will cave and give the info. Others will say something like “I haven’t done anything wrong so I have nothing to hide”. They still use Chrome and Gmail. They don’t use an ad blocker. They still install apps that request every single permission on their phones. Protecting your privacy online is extremely difficult and most people aren’t willing to do it.
Normies can’t remember things unless they are constantly reminded of it. Most probably don’t even know when these companies get hacked unless it gets talked about on the news. They don’t see the warning emails because it gets lost with all of the spam they get because they use the same email address for everything, same password too so the email account just got hacked too.
Maybe I swallowed too many blackpills but I just don’t see any positive changes regarding this happening any time soon without some new laws being passed, which won’t happen because these companies own every government.
It’s crazy because when I was a child these same people always told me to never tell anyone online my real name, age, or location. Now they are scrolling through facebook all day and constantly telling me to make an account.
if anything i would doubt that most people can be bothered to fish up all this documentation and go through the rigamarole of submitting it, i certainly feel exhausted just thinking about it
“Mastodon is soooo difficult to sign up to!”
Meanwhile on the dead bird site, go find your government approved ID, make sure you’re camera’s on and then take and upload several photos.
Sure, I’ll give my ID and personal details to Elon Musk. He seems like a perfectly rational adult. /s
This the same Elon who doxxed a guy who took a picture of him that one time?
Imagine you post something online he doesn’t like and he sends some goons over in a blacked out cyber truck
Wasn’t Twitter / Xitter / X (whatever they are called now) the company that asked your for your phone number “for your own (account) security” and then got all these phone numbers stolen by some hackers?
Hell yeah, why not do the same shit with your government ID. These are probably even more worth in the darknet.
Wasn’t Twitter / Xitter / X
Shitter. Credit to south park (from like a decade ago).
moar like twatter, amirite
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…
Climate change: hold my beer!
I did this to buy weed one time
Yeah but that makes sense.
Weed is atleast tangible, internet points are not.
Not only is weed tangible, it also gets you fucking blazed
Haha what? Are people actually going to do this?
