A technical issue with that is that names are not unique. I have the same name (from birth) as a famous person, and I've known a couple people who have the same issue.
It also doesn't handle people who legally change their name (e.g. afaik there's nothing stopping someone from legally changing their name to "Elon Musk"). That's a much smaller threat vector, but it wouldn't surprise me if a few people did it.
I would also imagine that it's trivial to create a fake passport that passes inspection once it's been passed through a scanner, stripping all the holograms and stuff off. That might be illegal, though I'm not sure if it's only the context of using it for Twitter.
As I mentioned in my other comment, that cuts down the potential of impersonates from 10s of millions to a tiny number. Or incredibly motivated people.
And it easily solved by taking it in the verification process. If you are getting verified and you have the same name as an existing verified account, its not that hard to verify that they are not trying to impersonate the other person.
You are cutting down amount of cases by 100000x.
I would also imagine that it's trivial to create a fake passport that passes inspection once it's been passed through a scanner, stripping all the holograms and stuff off. That might be illegal, though I'm not sure if it's only the context of using it for Twitter.
I mean if a country doesn't have working system of identification its not for twitter to fix.
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A technical issue with that is that names are not unique. I have the same name (from birth) as a famous person, and I've known a couple people who have the same issue.
It also doesn't handle people who legally change their name (e.g. afaik there's nothing stopping someone from legally changing their name to "Elon Musk"). That's a much smaller threat vector, but it wouldn't surprise me if a few people did it.
I would also imagine that it's trivial to create a fake passport that passes inspection once it's been passed through a scanner, stripping all the holograms and stuff off. That might be illegal, though I'm not sure if it's only the context of using it for Twitter.
As I mentioned in my other comment, that cuts down the potential of impersonates from 10s of millions to a tiny number. Or incredibly motivated people.
And it easily solved by taking it in the verification process. If you are getting verified and you have the same name as an existing verified account, its not that hard to verify that they are not trying to impersonate the other person.
You are cutting down amount of cases by 100000x.
I mean if a country doesn't have working system of identification its not for twitter to fix.