• CADmonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      2 年前

      “By using this site, you waive your right to local EU and UK laws”

      It doesn’t work like that, but I bet Elon will try.

    • Marzepansion@programming.devEnglish
      20·
      2 年前

      Besides some countries in the EU already have electronic ID identifiers. They can just contact them to verify I’m claiming who I am without this weird “yeah we need a picture of you, and look through your webcam”. Banks don’t need to do this to verify who I am, so I don’t see why “X” needs this weird privacy invading process

      Thankfully I don’t care about X (lol), and with more and more of my industry moving to mastodon I’m quite happy that I need it less and less to keep up with papers and articles

    • rustydrd@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17·
      2 年前

      GDPR would definitely prohibit transferring the ID data to third parties outside the EU. They could replace this mechanism with European ID verification services (via eID or video verification). But I can’t imagine many people would go through that hassle, just to keep using Twitter/X. Then again, this Elon man is a literal fountain of terrible ideas, so who knows at this point.

    • cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 年前

      In EU there are ways to verify yourself online, for instance if you want to get a credit card, etc. This is normally handled by a third-party, which more or less just checks per webcam if the info they got from the other company is the same as what you show them. I don’t see any privacy issues here, that I wouldn’t have seen in processes of other companies, that already do something like this.

      This isn’t something new and I would guess that this is the case with most modern countries.