So, it looks like while we were all sleeping, Intrum, everyone’s favourite debt collector (yes, yes, the ones whose fees you should totally pay because they’d never, ever make you believe you have no other choice ), branched into providing identity services. They’ve branded their solution IDNow. Neon Bank ? Intrum . Cembra’s credit cards ? Intrum . Swisslife ? Intrum . The list goes on and on: 250 companies rely on their services. Now, you’ll likely ask “why give a fuck, they’re a private company providing services to other private companies, they’re successful at it, good for them”. And that’s a fair question and remark. Intrum, sorry, IDNow, is also the identity verification provider for the Swiss Government’s AGOV service . Now, not only on one hand do we have a company that has been graced with multiple parliamentary inquiries ( here and here , for example), but one that simultaneously also provides a critical service to the government that is investigating and trying to regulate its behaviour, all while, even though they claim that no data leaves Switzerland, being legally incorporated in a foreign country. Yeah. submitted by /u/HastyLemur201
Originally posted by u/HastyLemur201 on r/Switzerland