The Confirm.io company, specialist in identity verification, has just been bought by Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg's firm is already known to prefer true identities to pseudonyms, some members fear that verifications and obligations become widespread.
---Facebook does not want pseudonyms, but real identities---
Since its creation, Facebook has constantly positioned itself in favor of "real profiles", with the aim of fostering family and social ties and not hidden actions under pseudonyms. This trend is currently accentuated by a future withdrawal of media content, because too many false accounts are only used to viralize news or fakenews.
This ban on nicknames, it should be remembered, is stipulated in the conditions of use of the firm of Mark Zuckerberg in these terms "People who use Facebook give their real name and real information about them". This policy, if it is followed to the letter, nevertheless implies some problems.
In this regard, let us recall the clashes provoked by the LGBT community and more generally by people who need to preserve their identity for professional reasons.
In this context, a Facebook leader had to reconsider his position and apologize to certain communities: "I want to apologize to the community of drag queens, drag kings, transgender people, and the LGBT community for the difficulties endured and processing your Facebook accounts. "
---With Confirm.io, Facebook wants security, while dealing on a case by case basis---
In this security perspective, which has been confirmed by both parties, Facebook has just made the purchase of Confirm.io, a company specializing in the verification of identity documents. Note that Confirm.io already provides this service to several US brands.
Currently, Facebook is already requesting a member to send a scanned piece of ID, but this is usually a further check for loss of access to an account.
The question that provokes the purchase of Confirm.io, the real objectives of Facebook has not been revealed, is whether the procedures of verification of identity will be generalized in the future.
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