Facebook buys government ID authentication startup Confirm

Were are so f*cked up they keep making Facebook harder and harder to earn some $ -_-

Users in the past were asked to mail copies of their IDs such as driver licenses to verify their identity. Further, Facebook was also considering allowing users to confirm their identity through selfies, notes Neowin.

Confirm.io’s acquisition could also be seen as Facebook’s effort towards verifying people who purchase election-related advertisements on its platforms. Facebook has as much as 6 million different advertisers, and buying ads on the platform mostly requires a Facebook page and a credit card. Confirm.io could also play a role here as well as its software enables proof of identity for online transactions.

In the run of this year, this might be potentionally one of the things that is going to slowly wipe out all these people who create accounts for ads
Not soon though, they've got to settle first. It can be used for checkpoints too

This can effect ALL stealth accounts on FB because photoshopped ids will not cut it any more.

Servin Laypa said:

This can effect ALL stealth accounts on FB because photoshopped ids will not cut it any more.

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why not?

The water will find a way guys ,this is my opinion

brrupsz said:

why not?

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Facebook paid hundreds of millions of dollars to buy a company which is expert in detecting fake and photoshopped ids. So pretty soon every fb account that is not legit will get destroyed. No more "please upload a picture of yours which we promise to delete after examining" type of problems to deal with. It's going to get near impossible.

Servin Laypa said:

Facebook paid hundreds of millions of dollars to buy a company which is expert in detecting fake and photoshopped ids. So pretty soon every fb account that is not legit will get destroyed. No more "please upload a picture of yours which we promise to delete after examining" type of problems to deal with. It's going to get near impossible.

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if a id checking scanner cant detect a fake id i doubt a picture will. you but fair enough these are very good ones.