This new approach seeks to extend this feature to the entire internet. What could possibly go wrong?
Back when I had a facebook account I recall it suddenly up and demanding I scan my drivers license one day or I couldn't log in again...on the same and only machine I actually had used facebook on.
This is manifestly and obviously false, in numerous ways. I don't even need to cite capriciousness, cultural differences, or potential political bias; even ignoring those things, it simply isn't and can not ever be a bright shining line.
This is even before we consider that TOSs have been known to retroactively change. YouTube just made such a change; doesn't affect whether the videos are removed but the retroactively changed the monetization standards, with large effect. "Just don't break the TOS" is a non-starter in such an environment.
After all, Meta's TOS stipulates that you must provide accurate information about yourself, and that you cannot share anything that is misleading.
It also prohibits making groundless reports or appeals, so maybe you could take an eye for an eye it you get unfairly targeted.
Remember the wave of people being in hot water over tweets sent in 2008?
> so they can verify that you didn't photoshop a fake government ID.
First, companies can catch most fraudulent documents simply by looking at the document (eg. are the fonts all correct, does the checksum on the MRZ add up, does the data in the MRZ match the data on the face of the document, does the data on the document match previously collected data about the individual, etc.) Some will go further by combining this with a "liveness" check (eg. they might ask you to take a picture of yourself in a certain pose, or to record a short video looking side to side)
Second, companies can use a soft credit check (if authorised by the user, which would need to be in the fine print when you sign up or when you are asked for such a document). Such a credit check won't affect your credit score, but can be used by companies to see if an individual with your details exists. Companies which offer such credit data in the UK/US/other western countries typically boast of 90-95% match rates across a population, but obviously younger people are less likely to be found since they are less likely to have a credit history. This is typically aggregated with data from non credit sources (electoral roll information, county court judgements, etc.) to reach those high match rates. They might also geo-locate the IP address from which you accessed their site and compare it against any address information they have on you (which could come from you providing it on sign up, it could be extracted from the document if it's a driving license or something, or it could come from any credit records they found relating to you)
For Facebook specifically, they might look at other online activity - other social media accounts they can link to you, etc. And throw all of that into the mix.
If at the end of all that they don't have a clear answer, they might fall back to a manual process, or allow the account to be created but have content posted by the account flagged for manual review.
Is that hard?
A quick googling shows websites that will generate a California driver's license for virtually no money, so I'd assume with decent programming skills should be able to put together a generator.
Still active, and I've sold a handful of things with it.
So they admit that new generations are not interested in FB or Twitter and they will die with the boomer generation? If not then this logic makes little sense :)