"In a business where you're having total strangers stay in your house, is it really an invasion of privacy to ask you to verify you are who you say you are?" P

"In a business where you're having total strangers stay in your house, is it really an invasion of privacy to ask you to verify you are who you say you are?" Part of the complaint is that guests have been booking (and getting positive reviews) without such all-encompasing knowledge of said guest's personal history. Hosts have evidently been fine with this too. In other words, what problem is this change solving (because it's not solving the guest's problem and some hosts are arguing it reduces bookings for them). If it were in the power of the host to ask Airbnb to hold additional information on guests, then the situation would be completely different. You could then decide for yourself how much knowledge you're willing to provide (as a guest) or how 'verified' you want your guests to be (as a host). That doesn't seem to be the case here.