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The day Facebook locked me out and asked for photo ID to get back in, that was the last day I used FB.

• deleted 5y ago
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• dheera 5y ago
  IANAL but is it legal to just use a fake ID with photoshopped numbers, considering there is no legal or financial damage done in doing so in the FB case? You aren't causing someone to serve alcohol to minors, you aren't giving it to the government, you're just telling a social media giant that they have no right to that information. I'm looking at this https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/vehicle-code/470b/ https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/vehicle-code/470b/ and IANAL but it seems that possession of a fake ID of itself isn't illegal and I don't think "using Facebook" falls under the intent to defraud, i.e. "in order to cause loss or damage to a legal, financial, or property right".
  • dane-pgp 5y ago
    > "in order to cause loss or damage to a legal, financial, or property right". It would be a stretch, but perhaps an imaginative prosecutor could claim that the user is trying to diminish Facebook's finances/property by generating web responses (using CPU time and electricity) which it otherwise wouldn't. That's discounting all the expansive interpretations of the CFAA which would deem any breach of Facebook's terms of service to be an act of illegal hacking, not to mention an interpretation of copyright law that asserted that the user was receiving unlicensed copies of Facebook's intellectual property (e.g. their HTML).
• dheera 5y ago
  IANAL but is it legal to just use a fake ID with photoshopped numbers, considering there is no legal or financial damage done in doing so in the FB case? You aren't causing someone to serve alcohol to minors, you aren't giving it to the government, you're just telling a social media giant that they have no right to that information.