Twitter/X new ID Verification - First Look
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
"Yes I would like a government that narrowly resisted a violent coup a couple years ago to be able to link me to every off the cuff remark I've ever crapped out."
“I have nothing to hide, I don’t break the law”
I have an incredible amount to hide, because I am a living human. How's my day going? What are you, a cop?
Doesn't have to be illegal to ruin your career. Could just be a horny web search at 3 am.
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
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
Same with EU and UK cos GDPR.
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.
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
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.
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 smell a large GDPR fine on the horizon. Mmmmhhh!
That horizon of consequences never seems to come near.
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.
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
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.
I assume this is the solution for celebs, public figures to confirm who they are (If they pay for premium)
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
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
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.
Haha what? Are people actually going to do this?
"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.
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.)
This is what the Internet will look like if the US government passes KOSA
yikes
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.