Several states passed legislation that requires age verification for social media, and this is how it's implemented.

Companies are also incentivized to do it to prove their actual active user counts versus bots.

Neither should Uber. I never needed to show ID to hail a cab. You just stood at the corner and waived your arm. Are we talking about Uber drivers here? That makes some sense. But passengers? (I don't know, I don't use Uber).

Drivers are background checked but honestly they probably get more abuse and attacks than passengers. After all there's no accountability on riders but there is accountability on the drivers.

Why does it make sense for drivers?

Because a company should know the identities of the people who work for them.

Because you need a valid driver's license to drive, so if I'm contracting you to do any amount of driving, an extremely standard practice is to see if your license is good.

Ensuring that their drivers have a valid drivers license at least makes a little sense.

The thing with all these leaks is that ID's are rapidly becoming worth less and less for the sake of actually proving your identity. Part of me believes a lot of this is intentional to try force people into using bio-metric ID like iris scans or finger prints to verify, since physical ID's are so widely leaked and so thoroughly distributed to criminals that they're no longer trustworthy documents.

that's a bit off the wall, don't you think?

I certainly hope so.

Exactly. You should NEVER give these companies your ID for exactly this reason.

I agree wholeheartedly, and I'm going to go a bit further...

I think that I'm either out-of-touch or far enough outside the bubble to be able to provide an objective viewpoint, but:

Needing to verify government issued ID to create an account for high-in-the-clouds pure "lifestyle" services such as Twitter and TikTok? Fuck me, is this how far we've come? Is this the destination anyone actually wanted to reach?

> Is this the destination anyone actually wanted to reach?

The services you register at love to ID you. Government pretents it tries to protect minors, but I simply do not believe them. And if so, this certainly would not be the way, on the contrary, they expose them to additional threats.