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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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[–] 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.