Twitter/X new ID Verification - First Look

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3291604

Thanks to Popcrave https://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1691852136236327316?s=46&t=lcH0dp9biwkMEBKsRQeVeQ

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

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The text says that you give X permission to store the image of your id for 30 days. If you trust them to delete it after that, then I don’t know how to help you.

Even if they do delete them, there will be millions of id images stored at any time.

What's the worst thing that could happen? I mean, we're already spied on constantly anyways.

Would you mind proxying all your data through my server? I MITM all TLS traffic, but as you're already being spied on constantly anyways, there's really no harm in opening yet another possible hole, right?