Sellers Required to Upload Government-issued Photo ID??

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Summary: avidhiker-33 opened a discussion about eBay's requirement for Canadian sellers to upload a government-issued photo ID, expressing concerns over privacy and data security. reelmagick supported these concerns, arguing that providing such information doesn't help in fighting money laundering and poses risks to personal data security. However, mrdutch1001 noted that most users managed to comply with the new requirements and pointed out the data privacy risks inherent in using the internet. A participant then closed the thread due to its age, suggesting to start a new discussion if needed.

Apologies if there's already a thread for this -- first did a quick search and didn't get a hit with any of the search terms tried.

Have other Canadian sellers uploaded government-issued photo ID to ebay's site?

I've only been listing on ebay since March and have been on Managed Payments since April. Yesterday (Aug 17) the payment for last week's sales was deposited in my bank account as usual.

Today (Aug 18) my Selling Overview page has this message:

"Your payouts are on hold until you update your account details. Please update by Sep 15, 2021 to avoid further restrictions."

My name, address, DOB are all correctly shown in the account detals. The SIN field is blank since I did not provide it to ebay. At the bottom of the account details screen is this: "If you can’t find any errors, you need to upload a photo ID"

The ebay Payments individual I chatted with online indicated this requirement is part of ebay's global response to anti-money laundering legislation, which strikes me as overkill. Perhaps other Canadian sellers have 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars in weekly ebay sales but I and I suspect a few others do not.

Personally I don't want to provide my SIN or government-issued photo id to any commercial website regardless of assurances that the data is "safe". Am I wrong?

avidhiker-33

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Posted 5 years ago·Last reply 3 years ago

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reelmagick

·3 years ago

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No you are not wrong. You are quite right. There is nothing a government ID card verifying identity can do to stop international money laundering or aid investigative measures to track, trace and recoup monies. Your data will be shared/sold unscrupulously with no benefit to you at all. There is also absolutely no data protection guarantee outside of flimsy verbal promises.

mrdutch1001

·3 years ago

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ZOMBIE THREAD FROM 2021

"Most" of us figured out how to get it done and have MP work just fine for us.

...and the only way to not have your data "mined" and/or to lessen risks to your privacy/identity is to NOT use the Internet. Anyone who uses the internet in any way, for any reason, already has given up their data.

kh-phdan

·3 years ago

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Hello Everyone,

Due to the age of the thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread if you wish to continue discussing this topic.

Thanks for your understanding!