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What's the difference between filling out your address in text versus scanning? Is your face not on the internet yet? Just curious what specifically would make
by 4b11b4 5y ago
What's the difference between filling out your address in text versus scanning? Is your face not on the internet yet? Just curious what specifically would make you never want to use it?
- oauea 5y agoWhy would these companies need to gather enough data to steal my identity?
- wyager 5y agoI can easily provide a fake address to protect my privacy. Harder and legally risky to provide a fake ID to protect privacy.
- DharmaPolice 5y agoIf you enter an address in as text you're in control of the data you're supplying. If you have to upload/scan a document then there might be other information they extract/store. I'm not someone concerned with such things but it's easy to see how they're different.
- floatingatoll 5y agoScanning lets you audit for photoshopping and sets a vastly higher bar for counterfeiting. (For example, Blizzard’s name change process requires you to cover irrelevant areas of your ID with actual paper, because no digital editing permitted.) See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27503674 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27503674
- huhtenberg 5y ago> Is your face not on the internet yet? Careful there, mate. This is just another form of the infamous "Nothing to hide" fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument