I signed up for Parler ages ago (hardly ever signed in), but I don’t remember giving them a picture of my DL or anything else. Is that a fairly recent requirement?
The language below is from the Wikipedia article on Parler:
“Registration and verification:
Creating an account and using Parler is free. Signup requires both an e-mail address and phone number. At the point of registration, users have the option of supplying a photo of themselves and a scan of the front and back of their government-issued photo identification to have their account verified by Parler.
In order to join Parler’s “influencer network”, the company may ask for users’ social security or tax identification numbers.
According to Matze, the identification document scans submitted by users who choose to have their accounts verified are destroyed after verification. However, the requirement for ID scans to become verified has prompted conspiracy theories about Parler’s retention and use of user information. Matze has also said that the service requires users to provide their phone number because people who can stay anonymous online say “nasty things”.”