Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too
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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
#2The OP says Facebok asserts that I is requiring his documentation of certain users with a high number of subscribers...but it seems possible that they'll turn this on any one who has been flagged for having a non real name, or when there are similar accounts (I.e. nearly all the same friends, except one is the person's "fake" account) on the same computer
Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too
#3What concerns me is that I doubt the average user will understand the potential ramifications of entrusting a copy of their ID to a third party. If these documents are not well-protected or the user does not bother to or is not capable of covering up information that can be used for the purposes of identity theft, this could be catastrophic for some users.
Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too
#4Ah, I can already smell the class action lawsuit for massive ID theft down the road.
Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too
#5Got to wonder how long it will be until a Facebook account is a form of valid ID in itself.
Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too
#6What concerns me is that I doubt the average user will understand the potential ramifications of entrusting a copy of their ID to a third party. If these documents are not well-protected or the user does not bother to or is not capable of covering up information that can be used for the purposes of identity theft, this could be catastrophic for some users.
information that can be used for the purposes of identity theft
Agree. Scanning a drivers license over the internet seems ...
Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too
#7The 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 say, should not be surprising to anybody.
DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT if you don't like it. You will still have friends, I promise :-)
Before you file for account deletion, you might want to do two things:
1) use http://www.picknzip.com/ to download the pictures of you from other people (I have a couple that I liked that I can use for other profile pics, etc.). (The other photos in my facebook albums that I uploaded myself, I already have elsewhere.)
2) associate your facebook account with a yahoo email address. You can download all the contact information of your facebook friends that way (I don't know if this still works, but it did last year)
This is, AFAIK, the only way to export your facebook friends' data
3) go to your full friends list, scroll down until the infinite scrolling loads the whole list. copy and paste this in an email to yourself.
These three steps should ensure that you don't "lose" any data about your friends on facebook, and will allow you to email them later.
Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too
#8LOL! This is surreal.
Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too
#9Got to wonder how long it will be until a Facebook account is a form of valid ID in itself.
This notion has been floating around for a while now and it seems less and less unlikely. I for one am not willing to accept a company taking charge of my ID. Actually, the day facebook asks me for my ID will be the day I quit it. It's total abuse.
Re: Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too
#10Got to wonder how long it will be until a Facebook account is a form of valid ID in itself.
This notion has been floating around for a while now and it seems less and less unlikely. I for one am not willing to accept a company taking charge of my ID. Actually, the day facebook asks me for my ID will be the day I quit it. It's total abuse.
A database that spans 1/7th of the worlds population. Facial recognition, relationships and locations. It really is the dream as far as fully validating an identity goes.