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Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by throwaway9398 »

I gave up on Stripe because they clearly are a US-focused company, and do not have a global outlook. I find it disappointing that after so many years of being in business, their payment processing services are still only available to a few dozen countries. This for example makes it impossible to rely on them to build a global marketplace with Stripe Connect accepting merchants from all over the world.

Stripe is not for those seeking to run truly international businesses. We've been patient, but we eventually realized that they simply do not care. We care about Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, but they do not. We do not trust them to prioritize the global availability of their offerings at this point, and as a result we no longer even bother checking out their offerings. What's the point if instead of empowering us, they restrict our business model.

Re: Stripe Identity

#52

Post by paul_f »

Ooh, we could use this. Curious, can anybody point me to other similar products out there? I'd be interested in comparing. BTW, my uses case is USA only.

Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by jonplackett »

ngoel36 wrote: post #2

I've never seen a company release incredible products with as high velocity as Stripe has over the last few years. Truly incredible. $1.50/user may sound outrageously expensive at first, but having seen all the engineering power it takes to build something like this at Uber...it's a totally fair price.

Just what I was thinking.

Can Stripe hurry up and go public so I can buy some shares?

Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by ______- »

f38zf5vdt wrote: post #34

Does Stripe intend to make a giant online database of international identity documents? Why should we trust Stripe to secure these? It could be Equifax levels of problematic if there would be a intrusion, but I also can't tell how Stripe plans to use this information.

> It could be Equifax levels of problematic if there would be a intrusion

I'm sure they're not as lax as Equifax. I would hope that Stripe compartment all these documents so that a compromise of one database is not a compromise of the whole database. That's basic data storage hygiene in the information age. `Don't put all your eggs in one basket` as the saying goes.

Re: Stripe Identity

#56

Post by jokethrowaway »

ape4 wrote: post #31

I wonder... It can pull up a user's drivers license - so what about their covid vaccination record (maybe in the future).

I'm pretty sure it can't.

They can't know for sure whether an ID is real or fake (they're not the government).

Re: Stripe Identity

#57

Post by troelsSteegin »

Wow, I would like to know about this has been engineered and QA'd. Owning this system on the product side would keep me awake nights. One question is tolerance on false negatives (you don't look enough like your govt id) - maybe they collect additional information, and use third party service for corroboration.

If my Stripe Identity can be used across vendors, it's almost like a digital passport. I'll ask, in jest, are Stripe and Estonia (https://e-resident.gov.ee/) in competition?

Re: Stripe Identity

#58

Post by edwinwee »

odiroot wrote: post #45

I'm really surprised they don't support Polish IDs. We've had them in the same format for ages and I've done automatic verification with some other companies (e.g. Revolut). Multiple much smaller countries' IDs are supported.

Working on it! Coming soon.

Re: Stripe Identity

#59

Post by wongarsu »

yunohn wrote: post #42
anonymouse008 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This almost proves that webapps are a competitive substitute to AppStores - making the consumer detriment very hard to prove in the current anti-trust framework.

This is not an app, more like a rich form? It just so happens that the APIs it needs are available in mobile browsers, i.e. camera. Other apps cannot do the same. Like messaging or social networks need things like notifications. Or those for IoT related tasks, which would need Bluetooth or such.

Google is certainly trying. On Chrome for Android you can do both of those. Whether that's a good thing is debatable though.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notificatio...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Bluetoo...

Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by baybal2 »

I was once enticed by AirBnB's promise of "we don't store your ID data after validation"

Few years down the line, it requested me to submit my ID data for a booking in China.

All my ID data was pre-filled.

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