First, I’m not going to give any social media my ID.

If someone intends to expose your ID to hackers due to Twitter’s poor security performance, this presents a perfect occasion for them.

I don’t know why these social media companies are so fixated on asking for personal information. And I’m sure this is just the beginning of Elon’s grand plan.

Perhaps it’s time to abandon Twitter and move to other fediverse or decentralised platforms? I would love to see a mass migration.

  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    2 years ago

    Wait! The darling of the conspiracy theory wingnut flat earther, pizzagate crowd is pushing government certified identification requirements???

    We have found the number of the beast, and it is X (and the neurochip he’s pushing)

    • sab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      I had to get a Facebook account in order to get an api token (for work). So I used a fake name. That apparently triggered something, because I then also had to supply legal id. What’s a guy to do in that case?

      Well, obviously the only sensible thing you can do under those circumstances. I just grabbed an example drivers license for my country online, photo shopped my fake name into it, changed since serial numbers, and pasted another face over the black and white photo. The original used a woman’s face with curly hair - turns out that if you neatly paste a man’s eyes, nose and mouth in there, he looks like a hardrocker. Next step: print it out on paper, take a picture of that from some distance, and submit it to Facebook as proof. Funnily enough, they approved it.

      Since I didn’t really need to use the account itself, I set it to only accept friend requests from Friends of Friends. But still, whenever I logged in with it, I got a popup that my account was showing “suspicious behaviour”. And that’s how you submit your id to social media.

        • sab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Absolutely. Like I said, I needed it for work, but there’s nothing Facebook could give me that would be worth their spying.

  • solidsnake2085@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Facebook did this to me like 10 years ago. I think someone reported my profile as fake, even though I created mine in 2006. They asked for a form of government ID to be sent to them, I did an MS paint line drawing of an ID card. They blocked my account for good with no way to even try again. I wasn’t going to send them anything anyways but I thought it was hilarious that they actually wanted me to do that.

  • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Because personal information = money, they can sell your data and they can also target you better with different ads to try and generate more clickable ads for you

  • Hal-5700X@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    So it begins. With this they can track through the net easier, and block you from internet for good. Freedom on Net is dying.

  • _pete_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    The best time to leave Twitter was when Elon took over, the second best time is right now.

    I think would be a step too far for most

  • Tzig@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    But think about it though, it could be a way for X users that are prone to identity theft to be easily recognizable, like for instance if you’re notable enough they could verify your ID and then give something to your profile so people know it’s the real you! I’m thinking maybe a Blue X ?

    You all can’t see Musk’s genius, that’s all.

  • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    Twitter is being held together by bubble gum and duct tape at this point. What a great invitation for some hacker to Swiss Cheese their servers and run off with a ton of personal data.

  • CarlsIII@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    What does “verification” even mean in this context? I thought to get verified now, all you had to do was pay $8