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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 trimbo »

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.

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

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Post by vonmoltke »

MichaelGG wrote: post #26
largesse wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have friends who work at Facebook. I still don't know how they rationalize their employment.

Like FB or not (I don't), it provides a lot of value to a lot of people. While it might not promote the ideals some of us "hacker" types have, on the whole, it is not flat-out evil like, say, some of those toolbar companies or botnet groups. Additionally, apart from writing in PHP, there must be tons of technical fun and deep problems to solve that makes FB fairly unique. And also, I'm not really sure how unethical i…

In addition to that, they do some good for the larger community, such as starting the Open Compute Project (http://www.opencompute.org/). That effort is what has me considering Facebook as a next career step (I would love to work on that stuff).

Now, this is not an attempt to defend Facebook's actions here or in their other recent efforts. I am merely providing another point of evidence to support MichaelGG's point that Facebook is not flat-out evil, and provide a reason someone might want to work for them despite their recent behavior.

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

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Post by nwh »

MJR wrote: post #25
nwh wrote: post #5

Got to wonder how long it will be until a Facebook account is a form of valid ID in itself.

It can't. That's the whole reason they're having this problem in the first place. They don't do anything in an official capacity to verify that you are who you say you are. They're relying here on Gov't agencies that require more proof with official documents before giving you another official document(ID card) to certify that you are who you say you are. It can never be a valid ID, because they are never involved in…

I'm fairly sure that most people could get a fake government ID without any significant trouble. A Facebook account it hard, because you've got to make up a lot of history and back story.

Don't worry, they'll get there.

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

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Post by nonamegiven »

abecedarius wrote: post #28

Taking their words at face value, what does someone's identity have to do with whether they've violated terms of service? How would it fix any issue? (On Instagram; according to the article Facebook wants your true name as part of their TOS.)

It fixes the issue that you still aren't as valuable to advertisers as facebook and instagram would like you to be.

Follow the money. Always.

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

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Post by phillmv »

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?
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