Why is it necessary to provide driver's license or passport numbers to eBay.

This seems a breach of privacy and an opening for identity theft.

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Why is it, that the more information i provide about myself in order to 'make my security safer' it inherently makes me less secure? The unique identifiers, age, name, drivers license and date of birth, used to designated as security risks, and providing combinations or all of them increased the risks of security breaches. Surely the more information i give over, the greater the risk the greater the vulnerability, the more  trust that i place in the apparent security. For the record, all of my security and privacy breaches are from online businesses and online services just like eBay and Paypal and Google and Yahoo etc etc....who have my information and are breached  by other parties, not me.

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From what I can find, demanding a driver's licence in Australia is a breach of the privacy laws. Particularly if there is another option. PayPal never demanded my driver's licence. So why does eBay? Are using it to create a marketing profile that follows you to the grave?? I will be fighting it.

No different to providing points of id to a bank or paypal, it is to protect you and your account, no nefarious reason.

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Thank you for understanding.

It is called Proof Of Identity, and is a legal requirement.

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