As you can imagine, new laws may require more tracking of who you are. Example? That new Canada US bank law.
Very intrusive on privacy across countries.
Bob
Hello All
We recently tried to do hosting via Hostgator-
After everything was setup and we got our basic website going, we were amazed to find our website "blocked"
Hostgator asked us to "verify" our details, and to send a copy of our credit card and passport/driver's licence etc,
failing which, we would not have access to our newly designed website.
This is totally UNACCEPTABLE to us, to reserve the right not to send personal details over the internet;
we logged a ticket and complained; we pointed out that we have company policies not to release any personal details, that we are a professional consultancy that has been advising our clients on IT security, YET we are expected to violate our principles and unconstitutionally submit to sending a scanned copy of our driver's licence with photo that must be visible?
What kind of crap is this?
We do thousands of dollars of business online via our credut card and also via PayPal, and NEVER have been
asked for this!
We do NOT need this kind of rubbish for a paltry $8
Our position is that we are innocent until proven guilty, and there is no evidence of any fraud, further more we already have security procedures in place with our bank.
We offered to redo the payment via PayPal, apparently this was also not acceptable?
We cannot understand what the agenda is, for there must be one, despite any denials or references to their terms and conditions/policies
Sending scanned documents over the internet is an archaic practice and belongs with the dinosaurs, we do not expect this from a company like hostgator
Is there a web hosting service that will simply gratefully accept our payment? We can do a PayPal payment -
We do not understand why Hostgator will not accept PayPal - is this not an EXTRA level of security
We certainly will appreciate any references to hosting services that will not cut off our services after ACCEPTING OUR MONEY and then basically accusing us of fraud, ie guilty until proven innocent
NO WAY will be sending copies of drivers licences with photo visible etc
Any help regarding this will be much appreciated!
Vikingzone

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