AirBnB IDs
May 4, 2018 11:09 PM Subscribe
So I'm new to AirBnB, and I think I'll need to add a government photo ID for verification purposes. They mention driver licenses and passports, and you have to scan or take a picture of one of them to upload. Ignoring for now the creepy feeling about uploading official IDs to websites, is there a 'better' choice between those two ID options in terms of personal security?
Here's the relevant help article on their site: How does it work when Airbnb asks for an ID?
Here's the relevant help article on their site: How does it work when Airbnb asks for an ID?
It's the law in a great many countries that AirBnB hosts have copies of guests on file; I usually use my passport.
posted by eustacescrubb at 4:40 AM on May 5, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by eustacescrubb at 4:40 AM on May 5, 2018 [3 favorites]
Passports don't have your address. I'd definitely use that instead. The machine-readable text is (usually) just an encoding of the printed material written in normal text above.
posted by mdonley at 5:04 AM on May 5, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by mdonley at 5:04 AM on May 5, 2018 [1 favorite]
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