Topic: is KYC data on Gambling sites safe? - page 23. (Read 2863 times)

Nothing is safe about your KYC information on a casino as long as the casino supports KYC, government regulates them and can walk up to them and demand for any information they needed without you knowing, also the gambling platforms can decided to take a research on it users privacy informations or an insider to leak your details or give others to be used against you, in short anything that has to do with central authorities is not safe to secure our information with, gambling or no gambling.

There are pros and cons for players when choosing a gambling site, whether to choose a non-KYC site or a KYC site.  It's essential to carefully weigh your options and decide what you believe is the best choice.

When deciding to meet KYC requirements,  be cautious about sharing your personal information. Once you share your personal information, you cannot control how it will be used. There is no guarantee that your information will be kept safe and used properly. Unfortunately, in many cases, you may not even be aware if your information has been misused.Given these uncertainties, be careful and think twice before sharing your personal information with the platform.

I wouldn't say that many cryptocurrency exchanges still don't require KYC. On the contrary, the trend is that there are fewer and fewer exchanges without KYC every year as regulators put constant pressure on them. As for gambling platforms, I agree with you that users should choose only legal casinos with appropriate licenses. However, the problem is that the crypto industry has had a lot of cases when users' personal data has been hacked and leaked, and this is probably one of the main reasons why many users are skeptical about KYC and try to avoid it.

You need to see first if the casino will ask KYC or not since if you don't like to submit it then stay away with it. Also almost all reputable casino ask this requirements so better do it since I think our identity is safe with them so try to see the feedback first before we go to this process to see if we can rely on them in terms of safekeeping our personal details.

Before many doesn't like to do this but time past as this one became normal many KYC doubtful learn to trust those casino where they trust and as of now we don't see any data leaking so for this we can say that we are still safe with the risk we think about.

Technically if we see, then NO, the KYC datas are not safe. The gambling site might claim that they will only use the KYC data to verify you, but we all know that the servers of these types of gambling sites gets breached multiple times and the datas are hence leaked. There are also some gambling site present, who just sell the KYC datas to other 3rd party to make money. So yes we are completely helpless here. We have to find KYCless casinos or else we have to continue like this only.

If you're using a KYC casino and failed to fill the required documentation on KYC, you will still continue using their platform enjoying gambling but the aspect that will pain you is when you want to make withdrawals, they will now remind you of rhe tasks left undone and ot until you have it done you will not be allowed to perform some functions you will request them to enable for you.


KYC prevented nothing in this aspect, the level of security measures each casinos or gambling platforms maintain is what gives them egde over the attackers from getting control of their system or network in gambling.


It's not about big money being involved or not now, it's either a casino is a KYC casino or not

I'm a bit paranoid when it comes to provide real ID data to online services, heard very weird story of people who had their ID stolen by bad actors and they are facing never ending REAL problems in their REAL lives.

Someone in this thread here said they are ok to provide ID as long as they are dealing with reputable site : well I guess we can all agree the reputation of the ledger site is/was indisputable; unfortunately I was involved in ledger hack ( https://cointelegraph.com/news/ledger-data-leak-a-simple-mistake-exposed-270k-crypto-wallet-buyers ) as I bought a device on their site long ago and they where hacked.
Beside a whole wave of pishing email, I didn't fall for because luckily am an experienced user of the net, I also received SMS on my personal cell number where some impersonator was writing me with my personal name asking me do perform stuff. It wasn't nice at all and am still scared about who may be or get hold of mine.

So yes, I can agree it is always a good practice to conduct some research and choose a trustworthy gambling site. Look for platforms that have a valid gambling license, a transparent privacy policy, and a history of positive user experiences. Reading reviews and checking the site's reputation can also provide insights into how they handle customer data.
But all these precautions may not be enough.

So lately am reducing at the max level using the service requiring my ID details unless it is something I need badly.

Their are some gambling site that the amount if you are using it they won't request for kyc, even when you are withdrawing little amounts of money, but their is always limit, when you are planning to withdraw some certain amount they will request for kyc before you can withdraw it.

Generally am not is support of submitting my identity anywhere, not even on gambling site alone, even other places like exchanges. I don't really like disclosing my identity because those gambling sites can be trusted, they might endup selling my identity to scammers, and the gambling site can be hacked and scammers will have access to my identity which can be used for illegal things.

You might not have any problem now, but do you know what will happen in the future? Anything can happen in the future, and your personal informations are already at risk, so look for a way to always avoid sharing your identity on gambling sites or other site's or exchanges.

It will still be at risk if you submit KYC in reputed casinos as well. Well, the concern will be lot less but yeah it will be there. Just because a site is reputed you don't know how they will be actually handling and storing your documents. Yeah much likely they won't indulge in selling the data but someone might attack where they are storing the KYC data and steal them.



One always should search about the casino they are about to play in but that doesn't gives much idea on how your KYC data is being handled (well none does) but with reputed sites at least you can stop worrying about data selling practices.

As you already know therea are so many reasons why a casino has choossen to implement KYC into their casino ranging from know the customer the are dealing with to the age, source of income, country he/she is from to if they have ever broken a rule before using another account or if the are currently playing against any laid down rule i.e for casino that don't allow multi accounts.
For me I have reduced the amount of casino I have completed KYC for, that way I won't have to worry about my details being stolen or something else happening to the infomation I gave that certain gambling site. Although sometimes we are forced to submit KYC even when we never had it in our mind to do so, like when the site suspects us of using/doing some illicit activity t ocheat them they suddenly request for our details.

If you're not too comfortable with giving out your details to casinos then just look for one reputable casino and stick to it, don't ever try out another one incase anything happens you'll know whom to blame. And also keep in mind that no site is safe.

Till this time I'm still one of those gamblers who do not want to fulfil KYC requirement in online casinos. Not because I do against KYC but it is about personal preferences. I was asked to fulfil KYC in 1-2 casinos in the past just to withdraw 1-2 hundred dollars but I refused it since it does not worth the risk for me. I'll do KYC if the reason is worth enough for me,  maybe if I win a huge amount of money.

If you provide KYC on a gambling platform site that doesn't have a reputation, let alone marked as fraud, of course it will be very worrying if you give your documents to them, fraudsters will be happy to sell your information data to third parties, but you will be safe if you give KYC to big gambling platform sites that have a high reputation let alone those in this forum.

Make sure to always research gambling platform sites before playing because as long as you don't provide documents on a new site or strange site all documents will be safe, believe me because so far I have never had a problem giving my KYC on a gambling platform site.

You will easily find many crypto exchange services that don't require KYC verification from their users than crypto gambling platforms because online casinos are regulated and they are given the free pass to run their business by the government, KYC can't be avoided and if your favorite gambling platform is telling you that they don't need KYC verification then you should be smart enough to understand that the casino is not regulated, they can seize to exist some day when the government hunt them down.

If the KYC requirement is not something you like then do not gamble online at all, I will leaves non KYC verification gambling website for the one that requires for KYC verification, because no legal online casino will run without KYC requirement.

Casinos that have been in the gambling industry for long understand the importance of keeping customer details very safe, and although we cannot claim that they are 100% safe, we know that they will do a better job keeping your details safer than newer casino's with management that have no experience in the gambling industry and the risk with gathering customer details. Your data is important, hence the need to not be careless with it on every casino that demands it.

See we are submitting data to these casinos but can't exactly tell how safely they are keeping it because they might be using third party services for managing data and we have seen so many data leaks and breaches which exposed our documents to hackers and scammers.But with legit casinos the risk is less as we have some kind of surety as compared to some scam casino we know would definitely do such things.

You have experience working with data. Is there no abuse committed by the company? If the insecurity comes from outsiders, I don't think it's the company's fault. Anyone can be attacked by outsiders, but if a company is committed to protecting user data, that looks good.

Maybe many people don't like kyc, but nothing can be done. Since Kyc applies to crypto exchanges and ICOs, everything needs kyc

It's understandable to be worried because it's not really safe to disclose your identity to any platform regardless how reputable or how high their security is. Data breach can happen that can exposed our information and worst be used on illegal activities.

As much as possible I don't want to gamble on casino that requiring their players to abide on kyc procedure. But if really necessary, let's say you have huge winnings and kyc is needed then I have no choice. However, it depends on the gambler itself if he will risk his/her personal information to withdraw the money. Nowadays kyc is common for casinos to ask their gamblers especially if the platform is regulated since they're just abiding the law to operate legally. If you're not comfortable with this, there's still option since there are casinos existing without kyc requirement.

Who knows. I handle data within my company and I know myself that it isn't 100 safe from being exposed, I reckon gambling companies are the same as well. I've rarely played on casinos nowadays but back then I really didn't mind KYC, I don't think I still do really (If preferable then no kyc ofc). I've never felt cheated though.

That dosnt mean I don't care though. Is why I mostly play on casinos that are well known. Their rep is pretty much the only basis I can use after all.

Overall not secure (honestly speaking), and there are some casinos based on how long they've been in business that are able to absorb the trust of users whether they implemented KYC from the beginning or only recently. Some gamblers would not be deterred by the new rules if they had been regulars at the casino for a long time.

I am sure that all gamblers would prefer not to do KYC because everyone feels the need to properly protect their personal data, one of which is by not exposing it to the internet because when the data is exposed it is very possible for other parties to misuse it even though the platform was initially trusted, but because when it's almost impossible to find a casino without KYC so whether we like it or not we have to do it and as long as the KYC rules are listed in the terms and conditions of the casino then it shouldn't raise objections from players but if it's never listed and suddenly players are required to KYC because there is Suspicion is something that shouldn't happen, especially if we as players have never cheated.

Yeah I did and because the money I was stuck with was an amount I couldn't afford to lose, so I was forced to do it and chose never to return to the casino, because the reasons are baseless and I didn't do what the casino accused me of, but if cheated means that my data has become scattered, I don't know about it so far.