Just one of the many reasons why I don't do KYC verifications. I don't expect people to learn anything from this though because It seem like people don't care about their privacy as long as they don't have to put extra efforts to use the forums or P2P platfroms to trade instead.
I have often expressed this concern with bounty and signature campaign managers who expose the email addresses of their participants too. At a time I had to take it up seriously with one of the top managers here before he then had to hide that column.Honestly, that's indicative of the original problem: Users need to take more care regarding who they share personal information with. Bounty participants shouldn't be sharing their real personal email addresses with managers, who are just anonymous people on the internet -- and they certainly shouldn't be sharing their KYC documents with them either.
The same goes for dodgy exchanges, and there are an abundance of those. Even if an exchange isn't intent on selling your documents, they may be overly lax about protecting your data. Even if they are extremely careful and take the necessary precautions, your info could still be compromised by a determined attacker. For that reason, it's important to minimize the number of exchanges you KYC with.
