Amazon order "lost" before delivery to Amazon Locker

eskbanker

I don't necessarily agree with your suggestion that people should just hand over more personal data to someone like Amazon, particularly if it's something like a copy of a passport which is treated as sensitive data under data protection laws - it will no doubt be stored by Amazon for as long as the OP has an account and then some.

Surely Amazon are handing off ID verification to a third party provider of such services, and are therefore unlikely to see, never mind store, OP's passport? A quick look at Persona's web presence suggests that corporate ID verification services are very much their core business, so it's naturally in their interests to preserve their reputation by taking all reasonable measures to protect any personal data they process and/or retain, although I agree that it's only natural to be sceptical about supplying personal data to any business (especially outside the UK's data protection jurisdiction), and all the more so when it shouldn't be necessary at all in the first place…

user1977

I'm sure Amazon already know far more interesting information about my lifestyle than they're ever likely to get from my driving licence…