Website [image] Privacy.com Virtual Cards – Secure, Temporary Cards Protect your financial life with Privacy.com Virtual Cards. Create secure, temporary card numbers to prevent fraud and control your online spending. Short description The company is now scann…

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Yeah, this should be removed ASAP.

Yeah I view this as unacceptable, we need to look at removing this now @team

I’m not necessarily arguing against, but there’s a larger discussion to be had regarding this category of KYC-compliant private payment tools: Privacy.com was never an anonymous payment service. It was a tool meant to keep your payment information private from vendors specifically. And to be clear,…

@ed-halocard may have some input. Obviously take it with a grain of salt because they are direct competitors but he seems to have done a lot of research and actually interacts with the KYC and banking industry.

I personally also hate these KYC platforms. But all of them are quite bad (and often not so secure). Problem is that banks went online, governments force banks to verify identity and governments in many countries do not have way to proof identity online for commercial purposes. This just let to som…

I’ve thought about this a little more. I believe this is, at its core, a question of threat models. A few thoughts to hopefully spur some more discussion: ____ For those who live under a high-risk model, who fear targeted attacks or government persecution, any tool that uses ID verification is unc…

Disclaimer: I’m the founder of a virtual card platform, so weight this post accordingly. [image] DeftPanda79: The company is now scanning people’s IDs using Persona I think they may have been using third party verification providers as a fall-back for a few years now. See this thread from Fe…

For those interested, I’ve added some commentary to Louis’ video here: [image] Louis Rossmann Cancels Privacy.com | Halocard CEO Reacts Louis Rossmann (@rossmanngroup) no longer recommends using virtual card provider Privacy.com after being asked to contribute biometric data to Persona,…

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