Comment on X is working on ID verification, what’s next?

HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• joe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve never really considered it before. Should IDs be considered private information, or public information?

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  • Gutless2615@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They very much are personal information not publicly available.

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    • joe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yet you show them to the minimum wage earner before buying alcohol, or let a bouncer scan it before getting into a club? That doesn’t seem like something you’d need to do with private information.

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      • d3Xt3r@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        In both cases though, there is a legal requirement for an ID to prove that you’re above legal age to buy/consume alcohol. There is no legal requirement to provide such information to a social media platform.

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      • SoggyBread@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But at the same time, all they care about is date of birth. Theyre not looking for name, hair color, eye color, address, weight, organ donor status, etc.

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      • sab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Show, yes. Take a picture of, no.

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      • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Over the years this has become more invasive. We didn’t have to hand over our I’d for scanning potentially into a permanent record to do things. A quick proof of age was all people cared about for those things inappropriate for minors.

        It’s illegal to ask for your SSN, yet it happens all the time and we have no recourse if we refuse.

        We’re being desensitized to the invasion of privacy to the point we don’t care any more. I think that is the goal. Death by 1000 pricks.

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