Hi Steve, I think Inna has worries to submit her ID through an insecure online channel. I know the contact form use HTTPS but is there a way that she use the PGP encryption feature that Facebook announced lately?
Thank you. Hassen On 04 يول, 2015 ص 03:54, Steve Weis wrote: > Hello Inna. I work at Facebook and have contacted you from my work > account. > > I'm not in a position to discuss the merits of the policy. > > Regardless, for future reference, under "Option 2" there is a set of > acceptable forms of ID that are not government issued: > https://www.facebook.com/help/159096464162185 > > For example, a "membership card" with your birthdate and a piece of > mail would suffice. > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Inna Malina <p.i...@lycos.com > <mailto:p.i...@lycos.com>> wrote: > > I am a Ukrainian Canadian activist and my country of origin is at > war. I created several groups on Facebook, including Russian > Speaking Canada for Peace, a political forum, which debunks > Kremlin run propaganda, and has over 1800 members. I also run > fundraisers on Facebook to help orphaned children evacuated from > war-torn areas of Ukraine. I am on Facebook since 2007 and don’t > pretend to be someone I am not: the birthday, contact info, photos > are all mine and my friends know who I am. When Russia invaded and > annexed Ukrainian territory Crimea, I changed my legal last name > to a pseudonym, to protect my family and people I work with > outside social media from bullying by Putin supporters, since the > threats and bullying online were/are abundant. > > Yesterday, on Canada Day, Facebook blocked my account (obviously > following a report from someone who tries to stop my activism) and > demanded to confirm my name by submitting my ID online. Instead of > ID I submitted a letter saying that I get regular threats and feel > rather uncomfortable sending my identification documents via > insecure online channels. I did add that I can show them to a > legitimate representative or even in Skype, but they can’t expect > a photocopy of a driving license or social insurance card to be > e-mailed or submitted through some suspicious form online. > > Only last month Facebook has come under fire for biased political > blocking of accounts of Russian opposition and Ukrainian activists > who are constantly cyber-attacked by the paid army of Putin > trolls. The petition, which has already collected close to 15000 > signatures, states: “Facebook indiscriminately reacts to these > reports by blocking the accounts of prominent Ukrainian public > figures and Russian dissenters. Lately, the bans have become so > frequent that we can now claim that Facebook has become an > efficient tool of the Kremlin.” > https://www.change.org/p/facebook-stop-political-blocking-on-facebook > > > > Facebook "real name" policy has also come under scrutiny multiple > times and has been called discriminatory. Petition by performers, > which collected over 40000 signatures asserts: “Facebook tells us > that "it looks like you're not using your real name," before > requiring us to change it. We cannot emphasize enough that > Facebook is a poor arbiter of what is or isn't a "real name." > Performers with legitimate-appearing names get locked out of their > accounts while people with account names like "Jane > ICanBeBadAllByMyself Doe" go without scrutiny.” > > https://www.change.org/p/facebook-allow-performers-to-use-their-stage-names-on-their-facebook-accounts > People using aboriginal names were discriminated by Facebook too. > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/facebook-flags-aboriginal-names-as-not-authentic-1.2970993 > > Just few days back, on June 30, Zuckerberg explained: “If your > friends all call you by a nickname and you want to use that name > on Facebook, you should be able to do that,” he said. In this > case, he said, the policy “should be able to support everyone > using their own real names, including everyone in the transgender > community.” > > So it is not clear anymore, is Zuckerberg lying to Facebook users > or is he simply ignorant of what his staff does. *When will > Facebook start treating its users with basic respect, when will it > stop political blocking and discrimination?* > > > > > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. > Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing > moderator at compa...@stanford.edu <mailto:compa...@stanford.edu>. > > > > -- Hassen Selmi Incident Security Handler Access | accessnow.org Helpline PGP ID: 0x32E8A2BC Helpline PGP Fingerprint: 6CE6 221C 98EC F399 A04C 41B8 C46B ED33 32E8 A2BC Personal PGP ID: 0x3EF06D5C Personal PGP Fingerprint: AE55 2E3E 884A AFED 17A6 23B1 D7CA 4CBD 3EF0 6D5C Join the Access team - we're hiring! <https://www.accessnow.org/about/jobs>
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