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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 0 points 21 hours 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.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You need to fill tax info and everything, which is a very good reason to not need ID because your tax number should be identifying already. I guess they want to combat fraud, but this still seems like a complete overreach.

[–] Arcadeep@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

It's not about combatting fraud