X can now ask users for government IDs to verify their paid accounts

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• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  X? Oh, you mean Twitter?

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  • AttackPanda@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I noticed that my brain is automatically doing the translation now from X -> Twitter. I would however prefer that we continue referring to it as Twitter

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    • kubica@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I read X like in "he who cannot be named". People use that name because they don't want to use Twitter, but we know it is Twitter. You won't change my mind.

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    • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I will also accept something like TwitX

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  • demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Xitter

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• IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’f you’re dumb enough to trust Musk with that info I’ll have no sympathy for you when it inevitably gets hacked.

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  • grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So a lot of crypto exchanges (all?) require this type of verification. I assume the next thing is turning this into a payment app using crypto. That sounds very musky.

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    • psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That is part of his stated goal

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  • ultratiem@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t trust any company. You’re taking a promise from something that has zero empathy or morality or much of a conscious.

    Unless it’s an iron clad contract, a companies promises mean as much as a handshake from Trump.

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  • vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    twitter doesn’t actually store the id, only the result of verification (just like… roblox? for some reason) they’re using a 3rd party that specializes on verification

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A pop-up window for the feature notes that X is partnering with Israel-based verification company AU10TIX to facilitate the new authorization feature.

  So if AU10TIX ends up getting hacked, like MoveIt, someone would be able to dox every neonazi single in one go.

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    AU10TIX

    Are we sure that’s not just the name of Elon’s latest kid?

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  • PlexSheep@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When I think of Israel based Software Corps I think of NSO Group. And I don’t like NSO Group. Am I unrightfully biased?

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    • squiblet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They a subsidiary of a (sort of) Dutch firm ICTS. Their Wikipedia page is interesting:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICTS_International

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  • 50MYT@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    challenge accepted?

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• HollandJim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  …sure, they can ask

  There’s no fucking way I’d be stupid enough to give it to them.

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• gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because this worked so well with Parler and Truth Social, lol

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• yeather@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh boy more data for them to mine.

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• ZILtoid1991@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It'll be easier to dox dissident to rouge states.

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• dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They can call it the SE-curity X, SEX for short

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• alienanimals@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

  Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

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• xc2215x@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not a good decision here.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) will now let paid users verify their accounts using a government ID in a bid to prevent impersonation and “maintain the integrity of the platform.” According to X’s updated verification policy (first seen via TechCrunch), the company may also request a government-issued ID “when needed” and is exploring additional measures to protect users from spam, malicious accounts, and content that isn’t age-appropriate.

  All verification information — including photographs of user IDs and “extracted biometric data” — may be stored by AU10TIX for up to 30 days.

  This may explain why X updated its privacy policy at the end of August to include carveouts for “biometric information.”

  Additional benefits like a simplified review process needed to obtain a blue checkmark and greater flexibility to make account changes (including profile photo, display name, and user handle) are also in development.

  X says it will also provide the option to use ID verification for “certain X features” as a means to increase trust in its platform.

  ID-based verification is currently available in “numerous countries,” but X did not elaborate on specific locations.

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  • venusenvy47@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just reading the text on the X site has some interesting contradictions, such as:

    Benefits: Benefit from increased trust from other users who will see your ID verification label when they hover over your blue check mark.

    More benefits to come: Speed up the process of obtaining a blue check mark through a simplified review process.

    Translation: “You can trust us more because we will take more shortcuts in verifying people.”

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