Comment on X is working on ID verification, what’s next?
joe@lemmy.world 10 months agoI’ve never really considered it before. Should IDs be considered private information, or public information?
Comment on X is working on ID verification, what’s next?
joe@lemmy.world 10 months agoI’ve never really considered it before. Should IDs be considered private information, or public information?
Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
They very much are personal information not publicly available.
joe@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
d3Xt3r@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
joe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sure, but if they’re not really private information, then what is the concern? It seems to function similarly to an email address, kinda? Something I’d really rather not be shown to the public but also something I’m giving out to the public all the time.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one [bot] 10 months ago
“Yet”
SoggyBread@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
joe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, DoB and the picture. Are those other data fields considered private?
sab@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Show, yes. Take a picture of, no.
joe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You don’t think there is a camera aimed at the register?
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
joe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But your SSN is private and you shouldn’t give it out or show it except in very rare instances.
What information on a driver’s license is private? Your address? Your eye color? Your birthday?