Facebook still asking for government IDs

Facebook recently triggered a spate of requests for copies of its users’ government IDs, according to a report from The Drum. But this time around, the request may not go down as smoothly in light of the news of the National Security Agency's monitoring and collecting data from Facebook and several other technology companies and services. Facebook asks users to obscure personally identifying information from ID cards other than their photo, name, and birthday before sending the copy. Facebook claims that it permanently deletes the document from its servers “after [it resolves] your issue,” though Ars has found in the past that Facebook is less than rigorous about deleting files you ask it to delete.