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Twitter to use Israeli software to require selfie, gov't-issued ID
for verification

Hundreds of thousands of verified X users may have to hand over their
ID and send the company a selfie if they want to maintain their
vaunted status on the platform.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Published: AUGUST 20, 2023 22:54
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The new logo of Twitter is displayed on an iPhone in Galway, Ireland
July 24, 2023. (photo credit: REUTERS/CLODAGH KILCOYNE)
The new logo of Twitter is displayed on an iPhone in Galway, Ireland
July 24, 2023.
(photo credit: REUTERS/CLODAGH KILCOYNE)

Twitter Blue verification on X (formerly Twitter) will now require
the user to supply the platform with a selfie alongside a photo of a
government-verified ID, according to a Sunday report by PC Magazine.

The new verification process will be made possible with the help of
Israeli AU10TIX software.

Users will have to agree to have their details stored for up to 30
days and for AU10TIX to also have access to the information. This is
on top of the monthly subscription fee which was imposed on verified
users last year.

X has claimed that the information will be collected "for the
purposes of safety and security, including preventing impersonation"
and does not carry any malicious intent.

Scammers have been taking advantage of the current verification
process

Scammers have been using the relative ease of purchasing the 'blue
check' to increase the effectiveness of their attacks, as reported by
Protos online. By pairing a blue check with a name deceptively
similar to famous people or companies, the scammers have used
verification to convince primarily very young or very old users into
handing over personal information, a type of scam known as phishing.
Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of
Twitter, gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference
dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles
exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023 (credit: REUTERS/
GONZALO FUENTES) Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and
Tesla and owner of Twitter, gestures as he attends the Viva
Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the
Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023
(credit: REUTERS/GONZALO FUENTES)

The move comes after a series of incidents in which multiple
individuals and companies had their identities impersonated on X
after early changes brought by Elon Musk meant that verification was
simply a matter of paying for a subscription.

First uncovered by the X user Nima Owji, the first to notice the ID
verification on Musk's own profile, he uploaded a screenshot of a
message presented by the app seeming to confirm these claims.

    #X keeps working on the ID verification. You should upload a
    photo of your ID and take a live selfie. https://t.co/3bdGgzlnZh
    pic.twitter.com/F4ssglakHR

    -- Nima Owji (@nima_owji) August 16, 2023

AU10TIX did not respond to a request for comment from the online tech
news site Engadget. The company specializes in airport security and
can provide "eight-second verification without even partial human
involvement" according to their website.

X also did not respond to requests for comment either.

The intention appears to be to roll out these new conditions soon,
with Musk himself having ID verification as of August 1, 2023.
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