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sending a photo of the company ceo's living room if they ask for a photo ID for verification
you wanna exploit your workers for profit and profit off my information, and not even have the courtesy to protect it when you inevitably get hacked? don't think so bucko go fuck yourselves
one time I was seated at a dinner table with some older lady I didn't know and I don't remember how it came up but she was telling this story about her friend's 13 year old son who swiped a credit card to buy porn and of course got caught because duh. and I sort of laughed because ha, teenage boy makes questionable decision because he wants to look at boobs, classic funny story right? well no because this woman was AGHAST that I would LAUGH as she apparently thought she was telling me a grim tale of damnation, like someone had got murdered or something. and I was like ah?? I didn't really know how to react!
anyway I keep thinking about that lady every time someone is like "well of COURSE we have to keep kids away from porn" like well hang on I was not in on the group decision that that was such a big deal!
Mastercards new policies affecting what you can and can't do online in regards to nsfw content going into affect this month AND their push to have your govt IDs tied to your social media starting in Australia and expanding if they succeed there....yall. 😞😞😞😞
These mfs really trying to justify it
"Australians are increasingly expecting no disruptions between their online and physical lives, and identity is an area that must keep pace with those expectations." (Source in replies)
No that's not how that works??? At all??? There is no "disruption" between online and physical lives. They're two completely separate spheres. The internet is for anonymity for a *reason*
And why is a PRIVATE ENTITY allowed to issue govt ids?????
Australia completely decimating digital rights is terrifying. This entire ordeal is terrifying.
I 100% support social media bans for children, but we have to realize facescans and uploading govt IDs isn't the way to do it. Just arrest the parents that give their kids phones
The REAL ID Act of 2005 goes fully into affect on May 7th 2025. This affects domestic air travel in the United States and access to federal buildings, among other things.
The rollout of state IDs meeting the requirements was slow, so if you want to be able to fly, check that your current ID meets the standards, or that you have any of the other accepted forms of ID such as a passport.
DIGITAL DRIVERS LICENSES ARE COMING:
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/markets/digital-identity-and-security/government/driving-licence/digital-driver-license
https://www.vox.com/recode/22526184/digital-drivers-license-apple-ibm-idemia-id-tsa-phones
Digital IDs are a great thing... in theory. one less thing to worry about. do I have my wallet? I don't need it! between credit cards on my phone and now, my Driver's License. I don't have to carry my wallet with me, or in my purse. I have everything I need on my phone! and since they're part of your google/apple wallet, even if you break or lose your phone or it gets stolen, you can remotely deactivate the device without having to order new cards/IDs.
could this be the next big thing? tentatively. the main selling points are also the main drawbacks. Personal Security and Privacy.
From a personal perspective I'm most concerned about traffic stops and the TSA. it's much more secure for me to give an officer my physical ID than it is to give them my phone. especially an unlocked phone in my state. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/if-the-police-arrest-me-can-search-cell-phone.html
In my state, if your phone is unlocked, it's similar to your front door being open, and police can sift through it all they want. if you have a locked phone and unlock it for the police to say, show your ID, you're also consenting to a search of the device. my concerns are echoed by the ACLU and prominent data security, and government overreach, experts as they have voiced similar opinions on the matter.
> Just last month, the American Civil Liberties Union released a detailed report raising issues about a digital state ID system, including concerns about police access to users’ phones, privacy, and surveillance risks, and the possibility that people will one day be coerced into downloading government apps. The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project also obtained a contract revealing that the state of New York has bigger plans for its Excelsior Pass [the digital COVID-ID system] than it initially disclosed [as they are using the same program to house these digital state IDs], which could reveal the risks of similar digital ID programs.
> “It’s hard to trust the claim from officials that these apps are only going to do X or Y,” warns Albert Fox Cahn, an attorney at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, pointing to the potential expansion of Excelsior Pass. “We see this clear pattern of them being installed for one purpose and then expanded for another.”
If these programs become available in your state, please be cautious in using them.
an obvious workaround would be an NFC data transfer where you can open the ID on your phone and tap it to a police device the same way you would pay for something using NFC at a store. many devices even allow you to do this without fully unlocking your phone.
another solution could be an old android feature that not all phones have (and not even all androids have, it was a feature LG used on some older models), and that's: Dual Logins... or "guest" accounts on your phone. I had a guest account on my old phone that allowed EMS (or anyone who found a lost phone) to do one thing: call 3, specifically listed, contacts. having your ICE contacts and your IDs on a guest account would allow you to freely give your locked/encrypted phone to an officer without having to unlock it.
Transgender voting rights could be undermined in two broad ways during the 2018 midterm elections
NEWS:
Recently, there have been a number of historic firsts for transgender political candidates. In 2017, State Rep. Danica Roem of Virginia became the first openly transgender person to be elected to a state legislature, and just last month, gubernatorial candidate, Christine Hallquist of Vermont, became the first transgender person to win a major party nomination. While these accomplishments are a significant sign of change in American politics, transgender people still face challenges in the political arena. One of these challenges is access to ID cards, like a driver’s license or passport, with a correctly updated gender marker (i.e. “M,” “F,” and in some states, “X”), instead of the gender marker that was assigned at birth. A 2018 report from the Williams Institute of the UCLA School of Law examines the impact of strict voter ID laws in the upcoming midterm elections. Their analysis reveals that such laws could disenfranchise up to 78,000 transgender people in eight states alone. To add to this concern, accusations of voter disenfranchisement have already emerged in some high profile races, like Georgia’s gubernatorial election. As such, the crucial question of who is able to cast a ballot looms over this already heated midterm election cycle. As a scholar of LGBTQ+ political issues, I’ve explained two broad ways that transgender voting rights may be undermined ahead of the 2018 midterms...
