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Comment by monksy

1 year ago

Do you mind expanding on what "non-documentary methods" means?

It is all defined in TFA:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/01/29/2024-01...

The TL;DR is that it can be whatever the provider wants, as long as it:

* includes name, address, email, phone number, IP address, and payment information,

* is written down,

* gives them a "reasonable belief that it knows the true identity of each customer"

* and "a sound basis to verify the true identity of their customer and beneficial owners and reflect reasonable due diligence efforts".

  • > * gives them a "reasonable belief that it knows the true identity of each customer"

    > * and "a sound basis to verify the true identity of their customer and beneficial owners and reflect reasonable due diligence efforts".

    I'm reading in to that in a conservative manner where it's "internally justified" that going the full privacy abusive route is justified. "Reasonable due diligence" is respective to the organization that could be punished, not a public sense.

    Given that it's on the company's discretion of diligent checks, I can completely see that their more aggressive requirements of: "your biometrics, copies of your official documents, 20 years of criminal background checks, a polygraph, approval by the Democratic National Party for appropriate speech, history of pornography consumption" being the standard.

    We're not getting a solution from the government that's a secure "is this person a US citizen?"/"Valid for IaaS service?" data point. The business is receiving all of the data to ask that question and are not trustable entities.