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Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too

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Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too

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Post by superxack »

trimbo wrote: post #31
nakedrobot2 wrote: post #7

The instagram TOS debacle some weeks ago was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I recently stopped using Instagram, and requested account deletion from Facebook. Graph search and its creepy implications were then nothing I needed to find personally objectionable anymore. I no longer have to complain about the other sleazy, move-the-goalposts, amoral aspects of Facebook Instagram. This latest one, I have to…

Yikes, there are a lot of sleezy ads on that picknzip page. Like the "installIQ" version of 7-zip.

No reason to use a website like that, you can download your Facebook data directly from the source:

https://www.facebook.com/help/131112897028467/

Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too

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Post by artursapek »

I wonder just how much friction Facebook users are going to put up with until we start seeing news of record account deletions. I doubt any Facebook executive wanted to do this. This is a decision made by lawyers. This is Facebook getting to big for its own good.

People, get off Facebook. I'm in college and haven't touched it in 11 months. I'm doing just fine. Nobody needs it.

Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too

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Post by callmeed »

nakedrobot2 wrote: post #7

The instagram TOS debacle some weeks ago was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I recently stopped using Instagram, and requested account deletion from Facebook. Graph search and its creepy implications were then nothing I needed to find personally objectionable anymore. I no longer have to complain about the other sleazy, move-the-goalposts, amoral aspects of Facebook Instagram. This latest one, I have to…

The biggest issue for me is apps in the developer area. I'd love to drop my FB account but I have active projects that use FB login.

Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too

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Post by jivatmanx »

Evbn wrote: post #15

HN, I will be disappointed if by this time tomorrow I don't see "Show HN: government id image generator (no numbers, so it can't be used as an fraudulent ID)" For FB's, they have to excuse from making an open source client side pre-upload number-removing tool.

Terrible idea, you'll likely be a felon for distribution of fraudulent federal Identification.

Same for anyone who uses it.

Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too

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Post by SonicSoul »

ForFreedom wrote: post #24

If social networks are so adamant, I will just create my website have all relatives and friends contact me via the said website. Or may be by email before social networks actually caught up.

yep.. i was following the same way of thinking when i created pics.nicecomeback.com ... no more giving my photos to facebook.

Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too

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Post by im3w1l »

callmeed wrote: post #43
nakedrobot2 wrote: post #7

The instagram TOS debacle some weeks ago was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I recently stopped using Instagram, and requested account deletion from Facebook. Graph search and its creepy implications were then nothing I needed to find personally objectionable anymore. I no longer have to complain about the other sleazy, move-the-goalposts, amoral aspects of Facebook Instagram. This latest one, I have to…

The biggest issue for me is apps in the developer area. I'd love to drop my FB account but I have active projects that use FB login.

Well drop everything from your facebook then. Remove all photos statuses, friends, etc.

Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too

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Post by darrikmazey »

I wonder how this correlating data can be used in cases of copyright infringement where the alleged infringer is only identified by IP address. Could a correlation between IP address and real-world identification be made by subpoena of FB records?

Reference: http://torrentfreak.com/court-throws-out-109-of-110-alleged-...

Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too

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Post by rglover »

phillmv wrote: post #37
rglover wrote: post #11

I hate to play the paranoia card, but this reads like a push from the government for Facebook to start cataloging people. If it wasn't happening already, this is probably the missing piece in court evidence to show that a person is who they really are. This is really, really dangerous (especially when the majority of their users probably aren't bright enough to understand the implications).

You mean, they needed something other than your birth date, birth place, real name, current residence, work history, current job, name of your parents, cousins, grandparents, not to mention the rest of your graph, to correlate you to a database somewhere?

Yep. Technically I could lie about all of that, but a gov issued ID is 100% factual and has my photo. Also, this suggests requiring a birth certificate in some situations which is even more extreme.
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