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How is this user data even reliable or useful when someone can make fake personas and populate their activity with LLMs? Drivers licenses can be faked. Moreove

by nis0s 1y ago

How is this user data even reliable or useful when someone can make fake personas and populate their activity with LLMs? Drivers licenses can be faked. Moreover, someone can just pretend to be someone else on this app with real drivers licenses. The whole premise, implementation and process of Tea as a social media app is flawed, and a legal liability for the devs.

fake-acc-420 1y ago
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- chuckadams 1y ago
  I don't disagree, but there are most certainly other perpetrators of identity theft out there. Not sure any of them would bother using it to sign up for something as niche and unprofitable as an account on Tea.
  - furgot 1y ago
    It's concern trolling, they don't sincerely believe it, they're trying to make the people they don't like stupid.
tamimio 1y ago
I hope it served as a good lesson to the average person to be more cautious while submitting sensitive information like a government ID. Just because it's an app with a nice UI doesn't mean it's secure, let alone trustworthy regarding who owns it. Last week I was contacting a government agency here in Canada and the support team requested a government ID to be shared over email, which is anything but a secure communication. I tried to share it as a link to my vault, but they refused, so now either I will have to go in person or they will find another way in the meantime. The internet went from 'YouTube asking users to never use your real name' to 'you have to submit your ID to some random app' in 10 years. Crazy!
- deleted 1y ago
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- ethagnawl 1y ago
  > I hope it served as a good lesson to the average person to be more cautious while submitting sensitive information like a government ID. This absolutely should not be normalized. If I'm ever prompted to submit photos of a government ID to some service, I'm turning heel. I'll try to use their phone service (which I just did successfully this week), correspond via mail or maybe, as you've said, handle it in person but I'm probably content to go without.
  - hdgvhicv 1y ago
    Every hotel and his dog takes a copy of my passport, it’s basically public domain.
  - wosined 1y ago
    I always do. I would have never made social media accounts if it required phone or ID. Thankfully I'm old so my accounts were made before normies flooded the net and started trusting everything.
    - dabockster 1y ago
      > Thankfully I'm old so my accounts were made before normies flooded the net and started trusting everything. It wasn't "normies" so much as it was the leadership and early investors of Facebook shoving "just trust us" and FOMO literally everywhere online. The hype (and hope) in 2010 was REAL and almost all privacy related conversations were shut down on sight. Heck, I think I still have my copy of Jeff Jarvis's Public Parts (ISBN13 9781451636352) somewhere in my closet. Amazing read if you really want to understand the mindset in place at the time.
  - SoftTalker 1y ago
    The sad part is that your government ID is about as likely to be leaked by the government agency itself than it is by any third party that has an scan of it. My driver's license is scanned every time I buy beer. I'm under no illusions that it's not quite readily available in any number of leaks or disclosures. If that sounds defeatist, maybe it is. Nothing online is private. Once it's in a database, it's only a matter of time before it's exposed. History has proven this again and again.
add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
If my license gets leaked and then a stalker shows up at my house, I will simply turn them away on the grounds that it was illogical to assume the license wasnt faked.
carabiner 1y ago
> Drivers licenses can be faked. Moreover, someone can just pretend to be someone else on this app with real drivers licenses. These are actually still very hard to do. I don't know anyone who would let me use their license for this purpose.

by nis0s 1y ago

fake-acc-420 1y ago

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chuckadams 1y ago
I don't disagree, but there are most certainly other perpetrators of identity theft out there. Not sure any of them would bother using it to sign up for something as niche and unprofitable as an account on Tea.
- furgot 1y ago
  It's concern trolling, they don't sincerely believe it, they're trying to make the people they don't like stupid.

tamimio 1y ago

I hope it served as a good lesson to the average person to be more cautious while submitting sensitive information like a government ID. Just because it's an app with a nice UI doesn't mean it's secure, let alone trustworthy regarding who owns it. Last week I was contacting a government agency here in Canada and the support team requested a government ID to be shared over email, which is anything but a secure communication. I tried to share it as a link to my vault, but they refused, so now either I will have to go in person or they will find another way in the meantime. The internet went from 'YouTube asking users to never use your real name' to 'you have to submit your ID to some random app' in 10 years. Crazy!

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ethagnawl 1y ago
> I hope it served as a good lesson to the average person to be more cautious while submitting sensitive information like a government ID. This absolutely should not be normalized. If I'm ever prompted to submit photos of a government ID to some service, I'm turning heel. I'll try to use their phone service (which I just did successfully this week), correspond via mail or maybe, as you've said, handle it in person but I'm probably content to go without.
- hdgvhicv 1y ago
  Every hotel and his dog takes a copy of my passport, it’s basically public domain.
- wosined 1y ago
  I always do. I would have never made social media accounts if it required phone or ID. Thankfully I'm old so my accounts were made before normies flooded the net and started trusting everything.
  - dabockster 1y ago
    > Thankfully I'm old so my accounts were made before normies flooded the net and started trusting everything. It wasn't "normies" so much as it was the leadership and early investors of Facebook shoving "just trust us" and FOMO literally everywhere online. The hype (and hope) in 2010 was REAL and almost all privacy related conversations were shut down on sight. Heck, I think I still have my copy of Jeff Jarvis's Public Parts (ISBN13 9781451636352) somewhere in my closet. Amazing read if you really want to understand the mindset in place at the time.
- SoftTalker 1y ago
  The sad part is that your government ID is about as likely to be leaked by the government agency itself than it is by any third party that has an scan of it. My driver's license is scanned every time I buy beer. I'm under no illusions that it's not quite readily available in any number of leaks or disclosures. If that sounds defeatist, maybe it is. Nothing online is private. Once it's in a database, it's only a matter of time before it's exposed. History has proven this again and again.

add-sub-mul-div 1y ago

If my license gets leaked and then a stalker shows up at my house, I will simply turn them away on the grounds that it was illogical to assume the license wasnt faked.

carabiner 1y ago

> Drivers licenses can be faked. Moreover, someone can just pretend to be someone else on this app with real drivers licenses. These are actually still very hard to do. I don't know anyone who would let me use their license for this purpose.