I’ve said it plenty before and possibly even on this thread, but providing your personal information to anyone is never safe. This should be evident with all of the hacks that regularly occur. If you do have to provide your identity information, make sure it’s to someone reputable, but even then it could very possibly be hacked and stolen.
I agree with you because there is no way to check whether or not your data are exposed to intruders who may use them for various illegal activities and this is why it is important to always protect your data as much as possible and be weary of the kind of platform you give out your personal information and documents to in the name of know your customers KYC.
Some of that platforms are highly vulnerable and unsecured to entrust your data in their hands.
Correct, after all we know there have been cases in which the data has been leaked by someone from the inside, and this means that it can take a while before there is any indication there was a leak, if there is ever one at all.
So while sharing our information online, especially information regarding to our identity, is now common place, this does not mean that we should just accept it, we need to be very selective about the businesses in which we select to do this, as even if a single one gets hacked then our entire information will now become another set of data sold on the black markets.