Timeline for A company has requested scans of identity documents. What should I do?
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| Dec 14, 2018 at 8:34 | vote | accept | paj28 | ||
| Jan 28, 2017 at 16:13 | answer | added | Anton Kaiser | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Jan 22, 2017 at 22:58 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/823303761397448708 | ||
| Jan 22, 2017 at 21:24 | answer | added | dark_st3alth | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 21:12 | answer | added | Julian Knight | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 20:55 | answer | added | octo | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 13:48 | comment | added | OscarAkaElvis | hmmnn... maybe. Sorry, I'm not sure to be able to help you but maybe would be as simple as "give it to them if you trust them". If not, ask why and why and why until they give you a reasonable reason or if not, don't give to them the documents. | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 13:14 | comment | added | paj28 | @OscarAkaElvis - This is not for my employer, but a company I do business with (e.g. Uber) The requests typically include a vague reason like "ongoing security" or "for your protection". I presume this is a fraud prevention measure. | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 13:10 | comment | added | OscarAkaElvis | Ok, and can we know why are they asking you for scanned identity documents? I guess is employees id of the company where you work, aren't them? Anyway, you can add easily watermarks to your documents if they are images (jpgs, pngs) or even if you send pdfs which seems a little more formal format. There is software or online pages to do it like this but I don't recommend to you to use online pages because if you use them, you are going to upload sensible info to that pages. Regarding the question if you should refuse, not sure, it depends of business | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 12:30 | comment | added | paj28 | @OscarAkaElvis - I mean "use a scanner to generate an electronic image of the document" | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 12:24 | comment | added | OscarAkaElvis | What exactly are you talking about. What kind of scan? virus scan? scan to get info like metadata? I'm not sure to understand the question... why other companies request to you nothing about your documents? or they want you to scan their documents? | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 11:38 | history | asked | paj28 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |