Forget Your ID? Your Facebook Profile Could Be Enough To Get You On Your Flight

If you arrive at the airport and realize that you neglected to bring your driver’s license or another form of government-issued ID, your Facebook profile may be enough to get your on your flight, as Vimeo Co-Founder and DIY CEO Zach Klein discovered Sunday.

If you arrive at the airport and realize that you neglected to bring your driver’s license or another form of government-issued ID, your Facebook profile may be enough to get your on your flight, as Vimeo Co-Founder and DIY CEO Zach Klein discovered Sunday.

Klein said via tweet, as reported by Mashable, that the Transportation Security Administration accepted his Facebook profile as proof of his identity, later tweeting a link to the TSA page that lists acceptable IDs, which states:

We understand passengers occasionally arrive at the airport without an ID, due to lost items or inadvertently leaving them at home.

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