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Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by mcrae »

gruez wrote: post #99

The landing page contains logos for clubhouse, discord, and shippo, which are presumably companies use the service. Does anyone find those usages to be unnecessarily intrusive? Maybe it's just me, but a chat app or shipping site asking me for a drivers license scan + selfie would make me never want to use the service again. It's appalling how this sort of stuff is getting normalized, eg. google asking for id scans fo…

Clubhouse lets you collect payments to join some channels. Isn’t KYC reasonable in that case?

Re: Age Verifications on Google & YouTube: this has been covered well elsewhere. Google is required to do so by EU law. Blame regulators not the companies.

Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by cyral »

rbaxt wrote: post #72

One of the creepiest products of the last decade. Let's wait for the inevitable data breach.

Better than every company that needs to comply with KYC developing their own half-baked solutions.

Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by edwinwee »

Etheryte wrote: post #96

Looks like the page was freshly edited to remove the pricing information (?), but it's telling they're targeting a very similar price range as Veriff [0], a startup that's been working in the same space for quite a while. [0] https://www.veriff.com/pricing#starter-plans

This is a small localization bug that we’re fixing now (the pricing section doesn’t properly show for countries where Identity isn’t available in yet), but you can see pricing for the US at https://stripe.com/en-us/identity#pricing.

Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by oauea »

4b11b4 wrote: post #108
gruez wrote: post #99

The landing page contains logos for clubhouse, discord, and shippo, which are presumably companies use the service. Does anyone find those usages to be unnecessarily intrusive? Maybe it's just me, but a chat app or shipping site asking me for a drivers license scan + selfie would make me never want to use the service again. It's appalling how this sort of stuff is getting normalized, eg. google asking for id scans fo…

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?

Why would these companies need to gather enough data to steal my identity?

Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by IgorPartola »

marvin wrote: post #95
thisiscorrect wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would that do to all the Stripes holding illiquid shares in a private company?

I'm not familiar with Stripe's situation, but there are non-public markets available for this kind of stock sale. You just can't buy from them unless you're already rich. I'd guess that long-term employees do have an amount of flexibility in that regard.

Can you form a mutual fund/ETF that invests into those kind of companies via the non-public markets and then sell shares publicly for the fund?

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Post by s_dev »

tomytosian wrote: post #98

After reading the HN below comments. It seems a sizeable portion of those comments are "incredible products from stripe" "amazing news" with very little backing content. Did they pay bots to post on HN???

Stripe is a YC company and will always have cheerleaders on HN -- it is also arguably the most successful YC company. One of the few companies who simply wouldn't need to astro turf on HN.

Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by Kiro »

gruez wrote: post #99

The landing page contains logos for clubhouse, discord, and shippo, which are presumably companies use the service. Does anyone find those usages to be unnecessarily intrusive? Maybe it's just me, but a chat app or shipping site asking me for a drivers license scan + selfie would make me never want to use the service again. It's appalling how this sort of stuff is getting normalized, eg. google asking for id scans fo…

Regular Discord users don't need to send in anything. It's used to verify your bot (only applicable for bots that are in more than 75 servers), which seems like a reasonable use case.

Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by smithza »

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #103
baybal2 wrote: post #60

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.

Even though I have zero confidence in similar claims by big and small players, in this case I would give them the benefit of the doubt and blame your browser instead, because exposing themselves in this way would be extremely stupid.

The poster said it was done in the App, not on the browser.

Re: Stripe Identity

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Post by judge2020 »

gruez wrote: post #99

The landing page contains logos for clubhouse, discord, and shippo, which are presumably companies use the service. Does anyone find those usages to be unnecessarily intrusive? Maybe it's just me, but a chat app or shipping site asking me for a drivers license scan + selfie would make me never want to use the service again. It's appalling how this sort of stuff is getting normalized, eg. google asking for id scans fo…

Discord uses it to verify the identity of bot makers - my understanding is that bots have been abused for a long time for data collection (think logging when users come online, go offline, change status, etc).
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