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Re:Stripe Identity by 4b11b4 on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:42AM (#27503939)
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?
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Re:Stripe Identity by huhtenberg on Monday June 14, 2021 @04:11PM (#27507666)
> 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

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Re:Stripe Identity by floatingatoll on Monday June 14, 2021 @12:03PM (#27504260)
Scanning 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

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Re:Stripe Identity by wyager on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:55AM (#27504151)
I can easily provide a fake address to protect my privacy. Harder and legally risky to provide a fake ID to protect privacy.
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Re:Stripe Identity by DharmaPolice on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:57AM (#27504176)
If 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.
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Re:Stripe Identity by oauea on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:47AM (#27504009)
Why would these companies need to gather enough data to steal my identity?
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