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Sounds like the process Paypal have been using for a while. I recall having to send a scan of my passport, drivers licence and Visa card to them a while back to
by DigitalSea 13y ago
Sounds like the process Paypal have been using for a while. I recall having to send a scan of my passport, drivers licence and Visa card to them a while back to prove I am not a money launderer and using the service for legitimate purposes. While intrusive I am more inclined to trust Paypal than Airbnb for a couple of reasons. One of those being Paypal have been around longer, they've established a rapport and two, I either comply or lose any funds I have in my Paypal account and make it hard for others to send me money in the future.
These kinds of processes scare me mostly from a safety point of view, but also from a trust point of view. How do I know the person verifying my credentials on the other end isn't secretly funnelling my documentation off to a nefarious third party using it to get a loan in my name or steal my identity to commit a crime? This has trouble written all over it, surely there is another way? The step requiring LinkedIn or Facebook is just ridiculous, what if you don't use any of those services?
If a company like Airbnb wants to dig themselves a hole, why should it be up to us to help them get out of it? I won't be using the service any more because of these changes and I assume others won't either.
- scrrr 13y agoOne person in that post said it right: "You want people to send you their photo ID / passport? Are you out of your *&#%& mind?" I am not even sure if I am legally ALLOWED to send a copy of my ID anywhere in my country. The right answer to a request from a company asking for such information is "F.U., no".
- lysium 13y agoIn Germany, you are not allowed to copy your personal ID document.
- jacalata 13y agoThat's an interesting claim, what do you mean?
- lysium 13y agoYou are not allowed to make a photocopy of the personal ID document. It contains data about your electronic signature.
- jacalata 13y agoI really meant 'who says so?' It sounds like an unusual restriction, and when I tried googling it I couldn't find any mention of this.
- lysium 13y agoIts in Section 14 of the relevant law: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/pauswg/__14.html http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/pauswg/__14.html (in German, obviously) It says who is allowed to 'process' the relevant information from the document. Copying is not mentioned. The German Wikipedia has a section on it: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalausweis_(Deutschland)#Kopiereinschr.C3.A4nkungen http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalausweis_(Deutschland)#K...