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.

  • dan@lemm.eeEnglish
    421·
    2 years ago

    Basically the only reason to collect that level of ID if you’re not a bank is so you can fulfil anti-money laundering requirements necessary to allow trading of some commodity, or currency.

  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    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)

    • Signtist@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      It’s always the guys the conspiracy theorists love most that do the shadiest shit.

    • 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
          3·
          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.

  • AndreTelevise@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    It’s optional and only intended towards Premium users, but concerning nonetheless. This ID-gathering is probably not even regulated in a lot of countries - I haven’t found any info on such regulation existing. And a migration is in fact happening - but it’s more of just people being less interested in the new ‘X’ form of Twitter with all of its restrictions. That part of the cake is distributed between platforms like Mastodon/*key, Threads, Bluesky and Tumblr, not to mention Facebook still being a thing too.

    • veloxy@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I haven’t found any info on such regulation existing

      In Belgium, the RRN (SSN) is considered confidential data and its use is restricted to specific purposes, typically related to administrative, legal, or public interest matters. To ask for RRN, you’d need authorization and it’s highly unlikely you’d get it just to validate someone’s social media account.

    • diprount_tomato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      So you’re telling me people are going back to fucking Tumblr? Afaik the reason most migrated to twitter in the first place is still there

  • solidsnake2085@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    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.

  • _pete_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    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

  • 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

  • Tzig@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    72·
    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.