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Did it even occur to you that you have no legal right to that information. Is it going to take a lawsuit?
You had your chance to keep your identity documentation private and from the sound of things, you blew it.
In my mind, sending off one's identity docs to anyone is a one-time thing. Think of it as a tattoo or a circumcision. You might get lucky and realize no ill effects, but it's damn hard to undo completely. Maybe getting all lawyered up (likely a yawn inspiring hollow threat like 99.9% of them) might help, but how are you going to know?
i'm not sure what country you live in, but since this new entity is going to be located in the USA, there are privacy laws in the USA that would prevent such information from being handed over w/o person's acknowledgement
I live in the US. In fact it is more likely the case that it is forbidden to tell the customers about a hand-over at this point. That would be a hand-over to the government, but it would probably stop there only briefly on it's way to private contractors such is the state of our evolving political system.
I say again, it does not bother me if the US Govt has my info. They issued me my passport in the first place for Christsake...and they don't need to steal from me since they have a printing press. Ideally anyone who wants authorization to send me money could just ask the goobmint if it's OK to do so.
But anyway it's a mute point. D&T gave his info to Mt. Gox (apparently) and while it's less likely now that they will again lose it to hackers, it remains a possibility. For the purposes of planning I assume that Mt. Gox would hand it over to the US if asked the right way, and if the close shop for some reason, who knows what will happen. I'm sure Mark is a great guy and all, but even if he is willing to flush a lot of value down the toilet it does not necessarily mean that everyone in that organization who might get their hands on it...particularly in it's final days...would be so upstanding.