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

• elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • joe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • joe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m sorry but I’m not following your point. I’m questioning whether the info on a license is really “private info”. I am not suggesting that people be forced to give Twitter their ID

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• SoggyBread@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • joe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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