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Why does Facebook need your banking info and SSN? And how in the seventh circle of hell would they feasibly brute force the correct information?

basch 8y ago
Because if you transfer too much money through them in a month they are required to verify your identity. Federal laws.
- close04 8y ago
  What's the connection between FB having to verify your identity and the question of brute forcing anything? I am 100% sure that brute forcing anything is 100% illegal. Using this as an "argument" in this discussion is really scrapping the bottom of the barrel.
  - basch 8y ago
    Maybe you are reading too much into that line. The point is, im not giving them anything they dont already have access to. (If they are asking my social to verify my identity, they already know it to verify against.)
    - close04 8y ago
      But that's you. Some people don't give FB that kind of info. And they definitely don't want the social media identity to be irreversibly tied to their finance. It's not only about what you give FB, it's what you indirectly give to the bank. How long before they share data and that does affect you? Again, your personal choice could be to post you CC data on your FB wall, you're free to do whatever you want. But you're seeing this very one sided if you assume everybody should be just as comfortable with FB and anything real in their life sharing data, or relying on a 3rd party with 0 obligations towards you for those critical services. And mind you, the problem isn't that the bank is relying on a third party for things. They may already be using a cloud service, they could also be using an Apple ID or a Microsoft account. It's that they would use a social media platform in general (thus allowing data sharing which will never do the customer any favors), and Facebook in particular (since they have some of the most atrocious morals and unreliable promises).
      - basch 8y ago
        give what I could consider private (credit card habits, gmails, fb messenger conversations) facebook having my credit card habits would be the least of my worries. maybe they could target me with more relevant ads. i agree fb is terrible at promises or treating people like they matter, but the only thing they ever do with the data collected on people is make them targetable demographics to advertisers. use an adblocker if you dont want to see them.

basch 8y ago

Because if you transfer too much money through them in a month they are required to verify your identity. Federal laws.

close04 8y ago
What's the connection between FB having to verify your identity and the question of brute forcing anything? I am 100% sure that brute forcing anything is 100% illegal. Using this as an "argument" in this discussion is really scrapping the bottom of the barrel.
- basch 8y ago
  Maybe you are reading too much into that line. The point is, im not giving them anything they dont already have access to. (If they are asking my social to verify my identity, they already know it to verify against.)
  - close04 8y ago
    But that's you. Some people don't give FB that kind of info. And they definitely don't want the social media identity to be irreversibly tied to their finance. It's not only about what you give FB, it's what you indirectly give to the bank. How long before they share data and that does affect you? Again, your personal choice could be to post you CC data on your FB wall, you're free to do whatever you want. But you're seeing this very one sided if you assume everybody should be just as comfortable with FB and anything real in their life sharing data, or relying on a 3rd party with 0 obligations towards you for those critical services. And mind you, the problem isn't that the bank is relying on a third party for things. They may already be using a cloud service, they could also be using an Apple ID or a Microsoft account. It's that they would use a social media platform in general (thus allowing data sharing which will never do the customer any favors), and Facebook in particular (since they have some of the most atrocious morals and unreliable promises).
    - basch 8y ago
      give what I could consider private (credit card habits, gmails, fb messenger conversations) facebook having my credit card habits would be the least of my worries. maybe they could target me with more relevant ads. i agree fb is terrible at promises or treating people like they matter, but the only thing they ever do with the data collected on people is make them targetable demographics to advertisers. use an adblocker if you dont want to see them.