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[–] Rolando_Cueva@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It doesn't ask you any ID, even non-Canadians could sign this petition lmao.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There isn’t a person on the planet who will input their personal ID to sign an online petition. The number of non-Canadians who care enough to tilt the petition is probably relatively low. It’d be a huge barrier to participation.

[–] Rolando_Cueva@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not Canadian and I did it, because wtf not. It doesn't ask for much, the hardest thing was the postal code.

Honestly the more countries there are with UBI, the better. If done right, more countries will follow suit. Good luck fellas 👍🏻

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

well, ukraine uses id verification (using digital signature or the Diia app) for it's petitions website and it just works (tm)
well it only asks for signature (jks keystore) which reduces chance of something going wrong to near zero.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sending personal state issued ID and all its info, including your photo =/= writing a signature digitally. Especially not in the age of accessible AI/“Big Data.” God imagine if they coupled that with your telemetry.

Besides, almost any company with the scale and resources to properly store and secure that data for potentially hundreds of thousands if not millions of people is not a company I would trust with all that information. Because let me tell you, feel good petitions are not what drives their revenue lol. And if they’re smaller then a data breach is all but inevitable (large company is also a juicy target).

Look at porn, which far more people want to access online then petitions. With each state requiring ID verification it the US, VPN searches on google rise by orders of magnitude in the respective states.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Things are a bit different if it's a government asking you to authenticate yourself. You're proving you engaged in that particular transaction (which is presumably the point), but otherwise you're not revealing any information they don't already have about you.

[–] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If you have a link to a more official one, please post it, thanks.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I never sign petitions like this unless it is directly submitted to the government through it's own petition system. Everything else is just a way to hoover up information on the pretext of helping.