This won't remain an issue restricted to Instagram users. Remember,
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, once said that
privacy is dead. It is not unwise to suspect that in the future, all Facebook users will require a government-issued ID.
Facebook is a dog that has tasted blood.
Over the past week, a number of users of the popular photo sharing app Instagram and parent company Facebook have been locked out of their accounts and prompted by both services to upload images of their government issued photo IDs to regain access, as
CNET first reported on Tuesday.
Concerned users seeking to regain account access have turned to several outlets online, including
Yahoo Answers, to try and determine whether or not the prompts asking for images of their IDs are real or are hacking attempts.
TPM itself has received a number of emails and communications from users reporting that they have been abruptly locked out of their accounts and asked to provide photos of their IDs. Here’s a screenshot of one such prompt from Facebook:
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