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 "customer support" whose main training seems to revolve around how to be a smartass to their customers didn't exactly help, not that they were getting a copy of my ID regardless.
Verifying your identity on Twitter will require taking a selfie
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Agreed. The only time I've submitted government ID online was for banking sites where it's only online sign up. I am OK with this because I understand this is a requirement set by the same government issuing the IDs with rules around how it can be used. Social media sites have no such requirement. They have no such rules around the collection of this information. They can do whatever they want with it once collected.…
Must be some kind of local rules because I've signed up for accounts (BoA, Discover) and have never submitted a picture of myself (govt issued or not) to a company. For me the only one that hurt was AirBnB when they imposed the picture requirement. That was a useful service.
Don't you have to always provide an id when you stay in a normal hotel?
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#63Are these hard to come by? I bet you could pay less than $10 per id+selfie combo Nowadays, you could autogenerated both, and it's way more expensive to check the I'd than to generate one
Stripe Identity does it for $1.50/proofing request. Not sure what ID.me charges (what Login.gov is pushing out across the federal agency fleet). If you fake it, of course the recourse is the legal system for identity fraud.
1) do they actually check against government databases
2) it isn't even illegal to fake your identity towards a company, is it? I mean only if you do it to commit fraud, not pay, or get alcohol under the legal age or something like that.
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> Elon's doing so many things that will gut Twitter/X. They've just been on the front-page of all the Western media today, from the FT, to BBC to the NYTimes, they're doing quite all-right. Meanwhile I realized today that I have genuinely forgotten the name of the Twitter clone put forward by Zuckerberg, C...something. Ah, no, I've just googled it now, it's Threads. Yeah, that project is dead in the water.
Are you a subscriber of the adage, all PR is good PR? I cannot recall the last time the-site-formerly-known-as-twitter was in the news for positive reasons.
Media don’t usually post about tech for positive reasons. Even the recent (temporary) success of Threads was projected as “Zuck kills Twitter”
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#65Over my dead body.
Looks like its for "verified" users only. Is it more acceptable in this case?
Problem's that Elon ain't trustworthy. Sure, verified users today, but next week?
I mean, the guy lies like ducks quack. How long has the cyber truck been a year away from purchase now? His reputation is garbage.
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Looks like its for "verified" users only. Is it more acceptable in this case?
Problem's that Elon ain't trustworthy. Sure, verified users today, but next week? I mean, the guy lies like ducks quack. How long has the cyber truck been a year away from purchase now? His reputation is garbage.
> Problem’s that Elon ain’t trustworthy. Sure, verified users today, but next week?
It doesn’t really matter, because Musk isn’t even trying to hide that he is actively trying to gradually make X practically unusable if you aren’t a paying (“verified”) user.
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> [T]he recourse is the legal system for identity fraud. Is it though? Are there sets of federal or state laws [in the United States] that say you must never misrepresent your identity to a private party (X) if they ask for it? Wouldn't their recourse just be their ToS? What if a retail store clerk asked you when buying toothpaste? I suppose the law would probably be around the fake identities themselves? (e.g. creat…
The mere possession of a fake ID is illegal. Even borrowing an ID is illegal.
If I’m American and I use a fake I D from another country, is that illegal?
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#68Elon's doing so many things that will gut Twitter/X. When he gives up trying, what lessons will he learn? This is my breaking point. I will not give up anonymity on this platform.
> Elon's doing so many things that will gut Twitter I keep hearing this, but people keep using Twitter.
Many people have also stopped using twitter. A decline is just that: a decline.
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The mere possession of a fake ID is illegal. Even borrowing an ID is illegal.
If I’m American and I use a fake I D from another country, is that illegal?
I'm not a lawyer.
It it worth a night in jail, a couple thousand dollars in legal fees and being felon to find out?
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> Elon's doing so many things that will gut Twitter I keep hearing this, but people keep using Twitter.
Many people have also stopped using twitter. A decline is just that: a decline.
Do you have a source that they outnumber the people who newly signed up?