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> I have no problem showing ID to my local bank though

Me neither. But they normalized this behavior when moving to mobile apps for netbanks by requiring people to photograph their IDs and take selfies for KYC.

After all this KYC stuff, photographing personal documents became normal and then many other big tech companies started requiring this stuff. I think even Facebook started asking people to send pictures of IDs to verify accounts. I know phone companies in EU started doing this.

I still refuse doing it for all these trivial services and it has a real cost in that it prevents me from using several services. At some point I will probably have to do it.

In my country, we recently had a real estate agency who got hacked and had all their KYC stuff exposed and sold for ID theft. It is a huge mess. The company then reached out to all the persons that were affected by mail telling them that this happened and that they should contact them immediately. So I contacted them. First step when contacting them was them requiring to prove my identity by sending photo of my personal ID again. Yeah, fool me once....

[systems_glitch]

I didn't realize it's required for mobile banking, I don't use it. I can see why that would've made people complacent about it.

Ironic about the first step in resolving KYC ID leakage being acquiring more KYC ID images...