Have you tried to log into your Facebook account today? If you have then you might have come across these messages.
We understand that some folks use annoying pseudonyms while others have more than one Facebook account, but there are other ways to verify identities. Why must we present government IDs?
This is a rather extreme measure for verifying accounts considering the recent exposure of private user details from Ashley Madison’s hack. It is unsafe to give out such information so ‘casually’.
We need a proper explanation on why Facebook requires our government IDs.
Your “security reason” is inadequate Facebook.
Not only did this happen to me, but when I told them my real (African) name, they replied that my name “doesn’t follow our name standards”. Somehow I don’t think this would be the case if my name was “Penny Smith”. This is discriminatory