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You have to give a hosting company a copy of your passport?!? (And hope they delete it… eventually?)


Only if you triggered some risk checking systems. I didn't need to provide anything when I signed up this year.


Ah, so after you’ve been with them a while and it’s a pain to go elsewhere.


Nope, I guess they use some algorithms during sign up to decide if they would like to have additional data or not




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