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Hetzner requires a copy of your ID which I find more intrusive. Does OVH? If there is a way to sign up for Hetzner without giving them a copy of your passport,
by projectramo 9y ago
Hetzner requires a copy of your ID which I find more intrusive. Does OVH?
If there is a way to sign up for Hetzner without giving them a copy of your passport, does anyone know?
- lucideer 9y agoOVH definitely doesn't, but this requirement by Hetzner is news to me. Do you know how long this has been in place?
- dx034 9y agoI can't remember that I ever provided it but I heard this a lot. They say that it significantly lowers fraud rates. It's not a legal requirement. Interestingly enough, it's debatable if copies of state-issued IDs are even allowed in Germany (there were courts saying that practices like this are illegal). EDIT: apparently that's legal now, see the answer below. I don't like the practice but believe their argument, hosting services attract a lot of bad actors and this will probably filter out most of them from the start.
- germanier 9y agoCopying ID cards in Germany has been made explicitly legal in July 2017 through a change of the relevant law.
- projectramo 9y agoI saw Hetzner cloud upvoted on here about 3 months ago and I liked the pricing so I tried to sign up, and they asked me to send them a copy of my ID. So at least 3 months.
- jbergstroem 9y agoI've been using tilaa as a mail host for about ten years now; its a vm/storage provider based out of Amsterdam. I at least tell myself that my data is relatively safe there.
- projectramo 9y agoAs others have pointed out, encryption is the only real protection. Unfortunately, you are not supposed to do it yourself because its complicated so you have to find a trusted third party to do it that has been vetted. But now you have to come up with a system to vet the vetters. What a complicated world we live in.