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Originally Posted by blackmonsters
I provided all those things to Paxum to get paid and it worked.
Then they cancelled my account because I live in USA.
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I've heard nothing but bad things about Paxum. It's why I don't have a Paxum account. So many people naively believe because an entity is a business, somehow that makes it inherently honest and ethical. Especially when you have a really large company like CCBill. Not everybody with CCBill is honest and ethical. But even if everybody at CCBill and Paxum were honest and ethical, the more information that has to be transmitted, collected, and retained, the more likely that information can fall into the wrong hands, even unintentionally on the part of the business that collected it. There are hackers and hacking.
ID requirements don't make people any more honest nor does it make an underlying activity any better. Either the underlying activity is good or bad. What the information retention statutes do accomplish is creating whole new crimes, where the failure to collect and retain that information itself becomes the crime.
So to all those people who cheer on this kind of stuff, here's what you are saying: if a business fails to collect and retain personal information, the business should be shut down and people should get into legal trouble for such an act.
And the ultimate irony is that it is the collection and retention of everybody's personal information that is enabling identity thieves, and identity theft is usually juxtaposed with some form of fraud.