Legal analysis: It depends on the circumstances under which it was taken. Generally, if you are caught by the police and violate traffic rules, the traffic police will ask you to show your ID and take photos, and also take photos of the individual, mainly to fine you. Routine police inspections are allowed, and taking photos is only for recording and evidence collection, and will not have an adverse impact on future daily life. Sharing photos of the front and back of your ID card to others will generally not have particularly serious consequences or cause other problems. Nowadays, you need the person and the original ID card to handle all business. Only photos of the front and back of your ID card will not do anything. Yes, you can't do particularly serious bad things. Even if the original ID card is lost and someone picks it up and does bad things, there is no problem. The ID card law stipulates that whoever uses someone else's ID card to do bad things will be held accountable. It has nothing to do with the person with the ID card. The person with the ID card is not responsible. Therefore, if you give photos of the front and back of your ID card to others, as long as you don’t sign it, there is no harm and it is basically fine. However, try not to send photos of the front and back of your ID card to others.
Legal basis: "Resident Identity Card Law of the People's Republic of China" Article 15 The people's police perform their duties in accordance with the law. If they encounter any of the following circumstances, they may check the identity of the residents upon presentation of their law enforcement certificates. Certificate:
(1) It is necessary to identify the persons suspected of committing crimes;
(2) When implementing on-site control in accordance with the law, it is necessary to identify the relevant persons;
(3) When an emergency that seriously endangers social security occurs, it is necessary to find out the identity of the relevant personnel at the scene;
(4) Other situations where the identity of the person concerned needs to be found out as stipulated by law.
If one of the circumstances listed in the preceding paragraph occurs and the people's police are refused to inspect the resident's identity card, measures will be taken to deal with it in accordance with relevant legal provisions and in accordance with different circumstances.