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by fouric 1727 days ago
Not OP, but:

If at all possible, I would want a hard guarantee that my photo ID and all derived information (e.g. my real name (as in the case of Roblox, they don't care about your identity, just your age)) would be completely deleted as soon as possible, as well as a description of exactly when that would be (e.g. "we have to contact your federal government to verify the authenticity of this ID, and then ensure that they know that we've verified your user account, and then we'll delete everything immediately - this typically take 4-8 business days, and we'll email you when the process is completed").

Regardless of the above, I would require that no personal information linked to my ID would be used for any purpose (analytics, marketing, ads, or sale/transfer to a third party) except identity verification.

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Unfortunately it seems like "hard guarantee" for most things in tech is almost laughable, and if there is a chance data can be gathered, probably not even worth dreaming about
Which is why "Asking" is an AUTOMATIC "delete the app" or "cancel the web account" or similar.

We weren't born yesterday. :-)

Indeed. Plus even if they "hard guarantee" it at service launch they could and likely would quietly change it after the press has moved on, with a TOS update on line 194,404,4008 that nobody will read.