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So it seems the idea behind it is if you want to sign up to a website such as say an online gambling website or a crypto exchange, instead of that website handling the ID Verification SumSub will do it and just pass along the ID Verified status to the website. The idea in principal isn't necessarily bad. Having lots of different websites storing personal information on you isn't particularly a good thing and for the businesses setting up those systems and the red tape can be a significant hurdle. However, if you're having one trusted platform doing all of the verification then you really need to trust them. In order to be verified you're handing over a lot of sensitive personal information, including name, address, date of birth, phone number, ID documentation, biometrics (face scanning), and more. Basically everything somebody would need to commit identity theft and fraud. Even if SumSub are completely ethical there is still the potential for data breaches - just look at what happened to LastPass. Having all of your critical personal information and identity documents exposed could be catastrophic.
 
I'm also curious whether services that are legally required to store and/or verify personal information of their users such as financial/crypto exchanges or gambling websites are even allowed to use third party identity verification services or if they're legally required to hold that information themselves.
Do the businesses that are using SumSub for verification have access to any of the personal information, if so, what?
What happens if law enforcement gets involved and requests user identity data from the business?
 
It seems SumSub also gathers a lot of information about users from the businesses as well. SumSub advertises that they monitor user transactions on the businesses service (such as monitoring finance/crypto trades) and that they can even monitor users gambling behaviour. Why are they gathering this information? What are they using it for?
In general, what is SumSub doing with the personal information and tracking data they collect? Do they sell that data?
 
It would be interesting to know what information they store on users, how they store it, when they delete it, how easy it is for users to delete their data. For example are identity documents such as photos of drivers licences or passports destroyed after the user is successfully verified or are copies of that data stored indefinitely?
 
Which country or countries are SumSub storing or sharing data within? Which countries are their data centres located?
What about businesses operating in countries that have data residency laws that require businesses to collect and store data inside the country?
 

From a business standpoint, if you were a business that used SumSub to verify your users identities what would happen if you wanted to terminate your agreement with SumSub? Would you be able to get a copy of your customers personal information so you could migrate to a different ID verification system or do ID verification yourself? Without it the business would lose access to all of their identity verification, which may result in them being locked in to doing business with SumSub indefinitely. What happens to those businesses if SumSub goes out of business?
 
What if SumSub decides they don't like the business you do. What if you're a porn website that uses it to verify actor/model IDs & ages and then SumSub decides that it morally objects to gay porn and cuts you off from its services. Credit card companies and payment processors (like paypal, stripe) do stuff like that all the time and it can significantly impact a business.
 
If you were a startup business who is required to do identity checks for your users then it may be tempting to go with an off the shelf ready made ID verification solution like SumSub, but my concern would be getting locked in to using their system with no way to migrate out if you wanted to switch to a different solution or build your own. I would be cautious about being reliant on a third party.
 
 
As for the SumSub company itself, I have some concerns about where they are actually located and who the directors are. The Co-Founder names listed on the website About Us page do not appear to be their real legal names. The business filings and registrations list their real legal names. Considering their company is based on the principal of verifying real identities it seems strange to me that they're not using their real legal names on their company website.
They claim to be based in the UK, and they are a registered business in the UK, but it seems that they're maybe based out of Cyprus? The UK company is owned by a Cyprus based company and the directors country of residence is listed as Cyprus. SumSub Ltd is registered as a business in Cyprus as well, along with several other companies they are registered as directors of operating from Cyprus. I'm not sure if they actually have offices in the UK that they're actually operating from or if it's just a shell company with a mailing address in the UK so they can register as a UK business and claim to be based in the UK. It's possible that they are actually operating multiple offices internationally, but to me if the directors are located in Cyprus, the businesses are registered in Cyprus and owned by Cyprus based companies, and they have offices in Cyrpus then it seems to me that they're based in Cyprus, not UK.
This goes back to where users are handing over large amounts of personal information and ID documentation and need to trust who they are sending it to. Where the company is based and operating from and where the user personal data is being sent and shared with is very important. Cyprus might not have the same laws and regulations for protecting private data that somewhere like the UK has. They need to be absolutely transparent about where the company is based and where the data is being sent, and I'm not convinced they are being transparent.
 
I'm quite happy if SumSub would like to respond to or clarify any of the concerns I listed.

Acer were building junk laptops 10 years ago and they are still building junk laptops today. I cannot believe as a laptop reviewer you haven't called out ANY of these Mickey Mouse manufacturers about their terrible keyboard layouts that they have been doing for just as long. A triple column number pad is not a proper number pad, the same way you don't mash together the cursor keys and take away the double-sized zero.
 
But I guess when they're feeding you lunch they can get away with it. So much for "full disclosure" and being critical/unbiased.
 
Worth noting as well that much of what you have shown these last few days isn't even officially part of CES, since these hotel suite setups aren't listed in the official exhibitor guide and are not open to CES attendees. Some better transparency would be appreciated if you are covering these as "media".

I think Linus has milked his house enough that at this point he did not only not payed for his house. he even made a profit out of nothing
I'm getting bored too seeing him flexing his own money and success
I'm not saying its a a bad thing being rich and successful
just getting boring seeing him like this
the worst part of all of this is floatplane
I totally disagree with making exclusive content only for people that can pay
LTT was born and raised on youtube because of us and therefore all of its content should be on youtube (for us)
obviously its his channel and he can do whatever he wants but that is a MAJOR turn off for someone like me
why you cant do it like other youtubers
we don't need a lab
we don't need expensive merch
we were absolutely fine with LTT 2-3 years ago before you start screwing everything
LTT doesn't need to figure out how to pay for more then 100 people because they don't need to have 100 people
they don't need to necessarily grew this much
they screwed up in a bad way and I don't think they can recover from it
LTT used to be a fun channel that every video worth watching a few times
but now, I think Linus's worst nightmare is coming true
LTT finally (and unfortunately) is turning into a soulless media corporation that doesn't care about anything other then money and milking its own viewers
i really needed to get this out of myself
 
sorry for my bad English

Just because he didn't handle it like you want him to does not mean he hasn't handled it.
Exactly. He's going to talk to them, tell them about the baggage, and that's it. Nothing more needs to be done. Just because someone makes a mistake, and this one is a minor one, does not mean they should be vilified. You live, you learn.
And if this stupid joke seriously offended you, you may want to reevaluate how seriously you take yourself. If someone makes a joke about me being Autistic, I am not going to be offended, because it's a joke. And if they actually mean to hurt you, just ignore them. Ignoring people is a very important skill to learn, and will be used no matter the gender, sexual orientation, color, etc. of the person.
Why does "of color" need to be mentioned? If you want racism to cease to exist, denoting a difference between yourself and someone who isn't "of color" isn't the way to do it. 
Skip to 0:40, or watch the entire thing if you want.

Didn't Razer ask people to send back their Razer Phone 2 for a full refund because it doesn't meet security standards and is dangerous or something?

I look at it from a purely practical standpoint - I, like most people, have a handful of audio devices that don't have bluetooth and would like to keep using them considering there's absolutely no reason to get rid of the jack in the first place. Furthermore, bluetooth devices need to be charged, which isn't always convenient. Bluetooth also drains your phone's battery more.
 
Can I make do with bluetooth? Sure. But why should I?

People are too obsessed with the meme around the 3.5mm audio jack on phones being missing. Unless you're a high-end audiophile who only downloads their music in incredibly high bitrates and uses very expensive headphones you won't notice any difference in the audio quality by going from 3.5 to bluetooth. I'm somebody who cares strongly about their immersion when they listen to music and a recent pair of $100 wireless earbuds I purchased are just as good as or better than any wired pair I've ever had of similar price.

God dammit, I was going to say this. I fully agree. Unless you're in a soundproofed 6 figure from set up, or a sound engineer /producer... The average Joe will never know the difference if they buy decent Bluetooth headphones or buds (jabra elite 65t for example) 

People are too obsessed with the meme around the 3.5mm audio jack on phones being missing. Unless you're a high-end audiophile who only downloads their music in incredibly high bitrates and uses very expensive headphones you won't notice any difference in the audio quality by going from 3.5 to bluetooth. I'm somebody who cares strongly about their immersion when they listen to music and a recent pair of $100 wireless earbuds I purchased are just as good as or better than any wired pair I've ever had of similar price.

Hunt Down The Freeman is the best meme

do they NOT get enough exposure by having EVERYONE SEEN ON CAMERA always wearing them? Why do they need to grind the video to a screeching halt just to plug the merch store? This is an extra AD in EVERY VIDEO beyond the intro and outro ads and the referral links in the description.
 
what I don't understand is people defending this, if Television increased ad spots by 30% there would be outrage, yet it's OK to do it because it's Linus? Seriously you need to stop brown nosing Linus.
 
Again i'm NOT SAYING to NOT have Merch (I personally have one of the OG Techlinked Tape shirts), i'm saying to STOP interrupting the flow of every video with the most shilly shill adspots of all time.

I'm going to have to ask you to step out of the web browser

"No officer, I haven't been drinking. I've been eating frog legs. That's the hops you smell."
 

looks like it's killing our planet

Yeah I noticed @ 8:53 in the video that Monday.com is running on the trial period, haha they didn't even get a paid-for account they could use for the video. I came to this thread just to see if anybody else noticed it too. Pretty funny.
 
Love you LTT and the video was okay until I realized that this platform isn't actually part of your guys' workflow. Makes the whole video very corny and setup in retrospect.

WHY, no really WHY does this exist, what is this fascination tech companies have with making things as thin as possible? IF I need to live the dongle life to use a product just so the product can be thinner I'm not interested, hell give me a phone thats 2 mm thicker and gets a 50% boost to battery capacity or maintains the headphone jack.
 
but again with the merch ad in the middle of the video so @James @CPotter @nicklmg and all the other LMG staff who's tags I don't feel like figuring out you have lost a viewer over your overkill merch shilling, I'm done, can't do it anymore. the ADS (NOT sponsor spots no matter what you call them they are ads) at the beginning and end where bad enough, now you are just trolling your viewer base with these merch ads in the middle of the video and those of us that have been around longer then literally HALF the current LMG staff are tired of this. #Unsubscribed #CantDoItAnymore

I am gonna let you finish, but...
 

 
...I guess I will use the method that can triple the battery life and "really works" plus "for FREE", thank you!
 

Linus Ad Tips

Yeah I noticed @ 8:53 in the video that Monday.com is running on the trial period, haha they didn't even get a paid-for account they could use for the video. I came to this thread just to see if anybody else noticed it too. Pretty funny.
 
Love you LTT and the video was okay until I realized that this platform isn't actually part of your guys' workflow. Makes the whole video very corny and setup in retrospect.

Yeah it's not a good idea to put your real name on the internet, not at all. Use pseudonyms, different usernames, things that are hard to search for, etc. Once something is on the internet, getting it off is impossible. Depending on where your data is being hosted you might be able to request its removal, but that's probably not going to work.

I made mine in GIMP, Shhh don’t tell my boss!

I can't angry react using the forums built-in reactions so I'll do it here

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Either way if you're upset by such things then it should probably be best to just avoid it instead of exposing yourself to it and getting upset over and over again. I'm not a fan of carrots and as such, I choose not to consume them. Might be best for you to avoid comment sections like this if they make you upset to a point where you're reporting upwards of 100+ comments.

Why does it matter, if you really don't like it then just ignore it. If you're easily upset by people aggressively asserting their opinions or disagreeing with each other, the YouTube comment section is really not the right place for you. Just because your disagree with these people's voices doesn't mean their voices should be silenced.