You're allowed to (and should) black out your photograph and your social security number, they don't need those for ID. Only your government, your employer and a list of government-sanctioned organisations can require social security numbers for ID purposes. the rules for photo ID are even more strict.
Additionally you should write in big letters over the scan "Request to access Facebook Data <date>", so that nobody else can use the scan of your ID-card for anything else.
The rest of the data, Facebook already knows (name, date of birth) or is useless (passport/ID document number).
> Additionally you should write in big letters over the scan "Request to access Facebook Data <date>", so that nobody else can use the scan of your ID-card for anything else.
This serves no purpose as it is trivial to 'shop these big letters out of the image.
I dunno what your ID cards look like, but ours have intricate patterns all over them. Additionally there's a punctured-hole pattern that vaguely corresponds to the photograph, so that's unique for every ID.
I can't really imagine how you'd want to reconstruct that, and even if you could I'd hardly call it trivial.
No need to reconstruct anything, just save the image with a higher JPEG compression and all the intricate patterns will be well blurred. I really doubt FB is spending any time whatsoever on validating these patterns.
Whether they do it now or not, but a few years ago they actually demanded that info (or some other form of valid ID such as your driving license) if you wanted to start a page and add music to it.
I was in a band back then. Set up the page, tried to add my own band's music, and was told I had to provide valid ID first.
