But don't forget guys, uploading your government IDs to any old fucking website to prove your age is very safe and protects children. There's no way this could go wrong and everyone in the supply chain is very trustworthy
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My elderly father recently fell for a Facebook imposter that pretended to be a family member and asked if their friend could contact him. The friend asked him to take a photo of his driver's license and text it to them, fortunately he doesn't know how. I've been wondering ever since what can they do if they had it? It doesn't have his social security number on it. His credit has since been locked and banks notified
They can open bank or crypto accounts in his name, and then either overdraw the account or use it to move money from other scams in and out of this account, so the real scammers name is not attached to this account.
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Also it doesn't help that, for example, at U-Haul, employees just use their personal phone to scan a QR code and take pictures of your ID.
this idea that employees can expect you own and use a personal smartphone as part of the job irks the heck out of me.
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My local hospital apparently requires their employees to use a "secure" app on their personal phone to transmit data on the patients.
Seems like irresponsible handling of PHI (by the administration, not the staff) to me.
Work in IT, alongside info security. Nah.
A secured app environment on a phone is plenty well secure for medical data. It is preferred strongly over a web based solution. Having a personal device running a company profile of security compliance monitoring and conditional access is as good as a company device provided by the hospital. They would do literally the same thing.
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Annnd this is why a refuse to verify with IDs online and use services like Plaid. And the web of T&C's from multiple 3rd party services like this will mean all of them get shielded from blame.
Did you read the article? They were renting a car. A car rental place isn't going to let you just not show your ID.
So how they did it once upon a time was you showed them your license, they punched the # into the system that would check it. The person at the desk would confirm it was you from the picture. No need to scan the actual ID card, which is where this problem comes from.
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Yeah, it was from renting cars, but they are digital copies of your ID, so any online service is just as "at-risk", if not more.
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I don't like it when a store scans my driver's license to buy alcohol. I stick to small convenience stores without that tech.
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Luckily archive.org saved the idscan.net press release announcing their partnership with Planet13 dispensaries. They have since deleted the post on their site. Nothing shady about that. 😂
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Just rented a car. Fuck.
Yeah, there's like 150 million IDs and licenses. I guess the company that handles like every major businesses ID verification has online security designed by Grom. Should arrest the top 15 people hands down.
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