Comment on X is working on ID verification, what’s next?
SoggyBread@lemmy.world 10 months agoBut 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?
elbarto777@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can you refuse to produce ID to law enforcement in the U.S. without probable cause? Yes? Then it’s private.
You give your ID info to whomever you want, including the minimum wage worker. But you don’t have to if you don’t want to.
joe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s not any working definitely of private information I’ve ever seen.
We’re talking about privacy in the context of information security.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, in that context, again, it still works.
Show the ID to the minimum wage worker so they can prove identify; put it back into your wallet. Don’t want to show it? Well, don’t show it. Can someone snatch your wallet and see it without your consent? Sure, just like it happens on systems with weak security.
SoggyBread@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You may be right, in person, you could probably figure most of that stuff out at a glance, but at the same time they dont also have access t one of my internet handles and access to my likes and dislikes. Well i defintely wouldnt want any of them to be associated with my twitter account
joe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think this may be closer to the reality of the situation. It’s not so much that IDs are private, it’s that people want their Twitter (X?) account to be anonymous.
I get that. My username on Twitter was my real name so I kinda messed that up right away. I didn’t really use it though.
Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Many of the scanning apps allow for customer and patron lists be built off the scans, even without that feature they usually store everything contained in a scan. That barcode on the back of American Licenses will often have more information than even the front. I don’t know about current standards, but at least one American state had your ssn as your id# and a few others would include it in the barcode scan. It really depends state by state how much info is in a code but it almost always more than whats on the front.