Considering the amount of bots and trolls everywhere I can see a certain appeal on an app that requires an id verification to be honest.
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ICastFist@programming.dev 11 hours ago
will require identification and photo validation
Straight from the book “How to kill your app before launch”, page 1.
data privacy at its core
Looks like they haven’t seen the obvious conflict with requiring id + photo, unless they plan on manually review every application.
After reading the article, it sounds like they’re just making yet another xitter clone with the hopes that govt figures will use it. Govts could just spin their own mastodon or similars for a similar effect.
bossito@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
mbirth@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
But if they’re doing it half-assed as most services, it won’t be a challenge for AI to generate random IDs and a matching avatar for photo/video verification. The only way this could work is if they’d verify your ID by reading the NFC chip inside the passport or ID card.
bossito@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
True. I’d be up for that, but honestly more for a real social network for friends and family, like Facebook once was, than for a debate forum like Twitter. That demand could maybe endure that it would remain a friends only network…
Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 8 hours ago
to ensure that its users are […] who they claim to be
I dont’t want that either. Maybe for verified accounts this makes sense, but not for the average shitposter.
architect@thelemmy.club 4 hours ago
They figured it out. They damn well know they are going to spy on everyone with this.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yup. Nothing and I say nothing makes a service less secure for privacy than requiring your ID and photo. That data will get leaked. It always does.