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Twitch is requiring new affiliates to give their government ID and a separate photo to Persona (bsky.app)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] almost1337@lemmy.zip -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, the giving the deets to Persona part is pretty crap, but requiring ID seems to be pretty normal to me? I'm pretty sure affiliates count as contractors, so needing ID to verify would be standard. They are just using a service that happens to be shitty to do the validation.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not sure why you're being downvoted.

I have to give my ID to buy website hosting. I have to give it to open a bank. I have to provide it for setting up a e-commerce store.

Like, what privacy are you expecting when money is exchanging hands between a major company and a person - one that is required to track all those details and hand them to their government?

You expecting Twitch to pay you in crypto?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 3 hours ago

Who is asking you to provide ID to purchase or rent a web hosting server?

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What ID are you providing for web hosting? Literally never done this, just payables info.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I needed my driver's license to prove that I was who I said I was with my credit card with ionos.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Crazy. I had Hetzner, Vultr, Linode, Rackspace (back in the day when they did that), never had to prove my identity.