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Social media users should be verified with real ID, IT professionals say

Lisa Miles
A majority of IT professionals have said social media should require users to verify their identities, in order to combat anonymous racism, homophobia and other abuse online.

But would you stop using social media altogether if you had to verify your identity and couldn't be anonymous in any shape or form?
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    It very much depends to whom your ID is released. This site is an example.


    The IET and forum administration know who I am, where I live and how to get hold of me they have indeed managed to post things to me....

    Casual browsers of the forum just know me as mapj1, while in case of a problem, those in authority, MI5,  police etc could in principle identify me via the IET if I did something so terrible that I needed to be found in a hurry. That I have no problem with, but you have to trust that the data is not exposed to those that do not need to see it, and is not sold on to advertisers and so on - I'd be more wary of some large American organisation in that regard, whose history of following UK data law is imperfect. 


    Of course if I wanted to operate comms and recruitment for some sort of anti-govt organisation in what I considered to be freedom fighters against an oppressive regime, I'd use encryption, veiled speech and/or the traditional pirate radio on VHF or indeed shortwave, the internet is far too easily snooped.

    Mike
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    It very much depends to whom your ID is released. This site is an example.


    The IET and forum administration know who I am, where I live and how to get hold of me they have indeed managed to post things to me....

    Casual browsers of the forum just know me as mapj1, while in case of a problem, those in authority, MI5,  police etc could in principle identify me via the IET if I did something so terrible that I needed to be found in a hurry. That I have no problem with, but you have to trust that the data is not exposed to those that do not need to see it, and is not sold on to advertisers and so on - I'd be more wary of some large American organisation in that regard, whose history of following UK data law is imperfect. 


    Of course if I wanted to operate comms and recruitment for some sort of anti-govt organisation in what I considered to be freedom fighters against an oppressive regime, I'd use encryption, veiled speech and/or the traditional pirate radio on VHF or indeed shortwave, the internet is far too easily snooped.

    Mike
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