"Yes I would like a government that narrowly resisted a violent coup a couple years ago to be able to link me to every off the cuff remark I've ever crapped out."

• nobody in the fucking world, hopefully

Sure, I’ll give my ID and personal details to Elon Musk. He seems like a perfectly rational adult. /s

Haha why the fuck would anyone do this for some social media? :)

If they make this mandatory in any way later you can probably expect half of Japan to stop using Twitter due to their privacy laws

I'm sure X security is flawless and this info will never be stolen. This definitely won't make them an even bigger target for hackers.

didn’t Parler have something like this, then their entire DB got hacked handed over to the FBI just after jan 6th, complete with hundreds of videos of the traitors committing crimes that they upload themselves? since Parler didn’t strip any metadata from uploaded media, the feds were able to use it all as evidence and use everyone’s IDs to tie it all to them.

I bet they arrested hundreds of people this way and used tons more of it at the various trials

Giving your ID to a company majority owned by the Saudi government what could go wrong?

I smell a large GDPR fine on the horizon. Mmmmhhh!

Who here is going to put their ID and photo on X/Twitter

Maybe not so many of the lemmy users but I guess, most normies will probably just give twitter/x all it requests even ID and photo

Oh boy, that au10tix sales pitch:

Did we mention? We built the technology that provided identity intelligence for airports and border controls. Then we added new superpowers for digital enterprise with the help of machine learning and all that other clever stuff.

Wasn't Twitter / Xitter / X (whatever they are called now) the company that asked your for your phone number "for your own (account) security" and then got all these phone numbers stolen by some hackers?

Hell yeah, why not do the same shit with your government ID. These are probably even more worth in the darknet.

People eat Elon Musk’s garbage PR like it’s dinner.

Elon will say/do anything to stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Any publicity is good publicity in his eyes. Stop doing the billionaire's work for him.

Haha what? Are people actually going to do this?

Hot fuck on a stick, no! I didn't sign up for Spoutible because they wanted all that personal information! What are you, a bank? (Oh wait, he WANTS X to be a bank, doesn't he.)

"Mastodon is soooo difficult to sign up to!"

Meanwhile on the dead bird site, go find your government approved ID, make sure you're camera's on and then take and upload several photos.