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app103:
And they had a provision in the system to check 'government issued IDs' already in place where it could be "accidentally" enabled...why exactly??

They got some explaining to do .. NSAy what?
-Stoic Joker (October 29, 2013, 02:12 PM)
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They have it in place not just if your account gets hacked, so they can unlock it only for someone that can prove the account is theirs, but also in cases of fake names & multiple accounts under different/fake names.

According to their TOS, you are only allowed 1 account and you are supposed to use your real name. But some people create multiple accounts for spamming, game cheating, puppet accounts for harassing people, etc.

I had a friend that had 2 accounts, one for real life family & friends and the other for gaming. She didn't want to annoy her friends & family with a ton of game posts and she didn't want strangers she was adding as gaming friends to get all up in her personal business, so she made the second account to keep everything separated....and then both got locked.

Since she could only provide photo ID for the account with friends & family, she ended up permanently losing her gaming account. I had to teach her how to set up filters & lists to separate everyone and retain her privacy, while using just 1 account for everything. And even though she has it all working properly with 1 account now, she still had to start all over with all her games, and adding new gaming friends, because she lost them all and her progress in the games along with the 2nd account.

Stoic Joker:
And they had a provision in the system to check 'government issued IDs' already in place where it could be "accidentally" enabled...why exactly??

They got some explaining to do .. NSAy what?
-Stoic Joker (October 29, 2013, 02:12 PM)
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They have it in place not just if your account gets hacked, so they can unlock it only for someone that can prove the account is theirs, but also in cases of fake names & multiple accounts under different/fake names.-app103 (October 29, 2013, 05:18 PM)
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FaceBook says: We need a picture of you Driver's license to prove it's really you ... Because we don't believe hackers know about Photoshop.

Funny how there are always such seemingly innocent sounding excuses "reasons" for implementation of overreaching systems that just beg for abuse. We're just doing this to keep you safe from some faceless evil that we pasted to a stick that we take turns wiggling in the hope that it appears believable. It's no wonder that every government agency on the planet salivates at the thought of mining that treasure trove of information. Now they don't even have to get up off their asses and find people any more ... They just blink the oopsy-daisy, your account got hacked light ... And everybody is all pre-greased and Pavlovian trained to just roll over and cough up everything - for their own safety. Yeah...Bullshit.

People need to get on the stick and reflexively raise hell anytime any organization starts asking for information they really don't need.

Renegade:
People need to get on the stick and reflexively raise hell anytime any organization starts asking for information they really don't need.
-Stoic Joker (October 30, 2013, 12:00 PM)
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In the godvernment API, every method requires several thousand parameters. :)

tomos:
Where I come from, you dont actually need to have any form of photographic/government ID - dont know how unusual that is (?).
Sorry dude, no FB account for you !


I'll follow rgdot's example and give this a Like :up:

TaoPhoenix:
Thousands of Facebook users have vented their fury at the social media site -Renegade (October 29, 2013, 12:08 PM)
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Wait for it ...

on Twitter!
-Renegade (October 29, 2013, 12:08 PM)
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 :D

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