Verifying your identity on Twitter will require taking a selfie

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This is literally why I left facebook almost 10 years ago. They locked me out and required I send them a photo of my ID. I said, &quot;Y&#x27;all ain&#x27;t the cops... imma not do that&quot;<p>...but first I drew them an ID in crayon which they rejected, then one in acrylics, one in color pencil, one in pastels, etc, etc... My goal was to make one for each of the 50 states, but I only did like 5 before I got bored of sending them and having them rejected as not valid IDs.<p>Anyways, I&#x27;m not ever sending a social media company government issued IDs. Not gonna happen.

Elon&#x27;s doing so many things that will gut Twitter&#x2F;X. When he gives up trying, what lessons will he learn?<p>This is my breaking point. I will not give up anonymity on this platform.

Sidestepping the question of whether Twitter rises to the importance of needing verification, I believe that identity verification is a huge missed opportunity for banks. There’s no reason why US users should be sending personal info to an Israeli company for anything, especially this.<p>A bank has traditionally been the place where we keep our most valuable physical assets. They are secured and insured. Security is part of the service they’re providing. Moving to the digital world, banks could also have been a natural place to store digital assets such as identity info, credit info, and email addresses&#x2F;phone numbers.<p>Then, instead of every random website asking for this info and storing it for an indeterminate amount of time, the bank would proxy it to them.<p>Being a “data bank” would be a highly regulated privilege, with license to store this info. Any non-licensed entity would be prohibited from storing things like SSNs. This reduces the attack surface to only the most important entities. As critical infrastructure, these data banks would also receive periodic stress tests, just as physical banks do today.

linkedin also just made this an option (and are soft pushing it). payment apps likely started the trend - stripe, venmo - but that was driven (afaik) by kyc.<p>maybe x&#x2F;twitter, linkedin etc. plan to add financial transactions and will need to be kyc compliant - so this is just a first step?<p>or is there a new &#x27;driver&#x27; for this model to cause companies like these to prioritize this &#x27;feature&#x27;? is there really that much destructive fraud or impersonation today?

Valve wanted me to send them a copy of my ID (amongst other things) in order to buy a Steam Deck. What they actually got was me closing my Steam account almost as soon as I opened it. Their &quot;customer support&quot; whose main training seems to revolve around how to be a smartass to their customers didn&#x27;t exactly help, not that they were getting a copy of my ID regardless.

The funny thing is there are now plenty of selfie generators based on a single image that could operate off of a fake or stolen ID

Related:<p><i>Verifying Your Identity on X Will Require Taking a Selfie and a Gov. issued ID</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37200989">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37200989</a> - Aug 2023 (7 comments)

Can I just drink a verification can instead?

If the entire point of verification is <i>verifying one&#x27;s identity</i>, I do not see why requiring a photograph and government identification is a problem. That&#x27;s the only reasonable way of proving someone&#x27;s identity.<p>The question of whether the use of &quot;Israeli software&quot; (whatever it is specifically; too broad to make any useful comment) is appropriate is up for debate, but the fundamental act of verifying identity based off government identification is reasonable.<p>Besides, if you don&#x27;t like it you don&#x27;t have to get verified nor use the service for that matter.

Over my dead body.

Time someone to make a “verifyAI” startup that will generate photo, ID, name, and basically all the data needed, being passive about these blatant privacy violations won’t get us anywhere, time to feed it the wrong data (inspired by that Firefox addon that clicks ads for you), P.S. 20% equity share for the startup idea :)

Venmo currently wants the same. KYC.

X is the new digital country club. You buy clout by buying a badge. Bad people can buy badges. Bad people can be legitimized by having a blue ribbon. Cows have blue ribbons.

Are these hard to come by?<p>I bet you could pay less than $10 per id+selfie combo<p>Nowadays, you could autogenerated both, and it&#x27;s way more expensive to check the I&#x27;d than to generate one

If it is going to be an &quot;everything app&quot;, that also includes banking thus the KYC. I presume this is related to financial services, banking, etc.

I thought all you had to do was give him that sweet cash?

Man, I&#x27;ve never had a Twitter for me, but I&#x27;ve had many joke accounts. Such fun. Huzzah!<p>I hope someone archived this stuff. I never figured out how to pull all of Twitter myself.

Nope.

CCPA and GDPR are going to have a field day with this crap

They&#x27;ll totally delete the data within 30 days, pinky promise.