First it was medical offices. Now Airbnb has a step in the rental request process that asks you hold your license up to your computer camera and click an onscreen button to capture a copy. I understand that they've had a problem with scammers, but asking users to invite identity theft seems like the wrong solution. From what I've read this is the company, not the individual renter who demands and keeps this data. It looks like the vast majority of users are OK with this. Should I be?? Are the other rental sites doing this too? Why has this become a thing in the last couple of years? If you can point me to a good discussion of this I'd appreciate it.
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