• katy ✨
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    232 years ago

    Giving your ID to a company majority owned by the Saudi government what could go wrong?

  • @Ktest@feddit.uk
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    152 years ago

    Sure, I’ll give my ID and personal details to Elon Musk. He seems like a perfectly rational adult. /s

  • Ethalia
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    122 years ago

    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

    • @Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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      52 years ago

      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

      • @Comment105@lemm.ee
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        22 years ago

        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?

        • Mkengine
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          42 years ago

          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.

        • @Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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          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.

          • @Comment105@lemm.ee
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            12 years ago

            We have the same in Norway.

            I seem to recall some international payment options being able to utilize it.

        • @kungen@feddit.nu
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          32 years ago

          Though it’s a big difference to comply with business KYC requirements than to simply have a cool icon by your username.

        • Ethalia
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          32 years ago

          Oh definitely. No one cares unless it personally affects them

          • I need NOS
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            42 years ago

            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…

  • adroit balloon
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    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

  • DreamySweet
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    82 years ago

    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.

  • Leraje
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    32 years ago

    “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.

  • @barusu@lemm.ee
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    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

      • DreamySweet
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        12 years ago

        “I haven’t done anything wrong so I have nothing to hide!”

    • DreamySweet
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      02 years ago

      Normies absolutely will and they will think you’re crazy for not wanting to.

      • CIWS-30
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        12 years ago

        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.

  • ArugulaZ
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    12 years ago

    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.)