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by quadrifoliate
1275 days ago
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While Tencent and Wechat sound absolutely dystopian, the "you need a Government ID and a picture of your face" is often a requirement for creating a Facebook account or retaining your old one as well. Twitter also used to require a phone number to retain an active account; and Google frequently locks people out of old accounts unless they provide a phone. Is this whataboutism? Possibly – but what I'd actually like to happen is US-based companies are charged company-hurting fines for mismanaging PII like this (Twitter, for example, is currently openly planning to sell user phone data [1] that they previously gathered for security purposes). All this to say, we can't reasonably call out other dystopian companies if the ones we use everyday are doing the exact same thing. So we should call out secret scanning from Meta [2] and (if it ever happens) Twitter as well. ---------------------------------------- [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-plans-to-force-users... [2] https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/11/09/meta-jo... |
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