Where is Privacy's headquarters?
Who are Privacy's competitors?
http://privacy.com/
Seems cool but I don't live in the USA
Some people don't seem to understand the purpose of privacy.com. It keeps your identity private because vendors can't see it (you use bogus name and address info with the card). Of course privacy.com knows your info, they would have to in order to comply with US anti money laundering laws.
I've been a paying customer for privacy.com credit cards for probably a year now. My first indicator they didn't care about privacy was when they only allow you to use a credit card to pay for their services instead of the bank account that's literally linked to the account you're using. Not sure why you have to include a credit card company when the bank is already directly involved.
Anyways, I received some transaction denials the past couple days and after contacting support I was told that I simply have to delete my current bank connection and re-add it. They apologize for the inconvenience.
When I go to do that it looks like plaid is now their payment provider. If you search plaids privacy policy it's pretty disgusting.
https://plaid.com/legal/#consumers
So it looks like in order to continue using privacy.com you have to agree to letting plaid rape your financial data and have visibility into everything you purchase going forward until the end of time.
Am I being dramatic here or would you say the privacy.com should be more aware that their customer base is fanatic about privacy?
Any alternatives to privacy.com? Surely using credit cards in a private manner will be increasingly more popular all the time.
Hi all,
I recently came to know about Privacy.com and have read what's it all about. It seems like a really good thing to use however it's only for US citizens which is a bummer.
I would like to buy Mullvad and Tutanota subscription with it as well as other international payments / subscriptions. Any other alternative?
If not, would PayPal be good?
Thanks for your thoughts.
I'm interested in masking my cc, but don't really want to give my bank password & ID to use. Someone else suggested SudoPay, but that is only for iOS and I'm an Android user.
After hearing praise for Privacy.com on The Complete Privacy & Security Podcast I signed up and have been really liking it. It creates a masked debit card. If you need a masked credit card I would look into Blur's Premium service (also recommended on the podcast). It's about $3/month. Privacy.com's Android app is pretty good, Blur's Android app is pretty shite but doable.
Please be careful with this company. I created the account and tried first time to create a virtual card but couldn’t create it. I contacted [email protected] and get reply as below “Hi,
Thank you for your interest in Privacy. Our team has concluded a review of your application and we are unable to approve your account at this time.
For security purposes, we have deactivated the account and transactions with Privacy will not be permitted. Any new accounts you open will be closed.
Due to the proprietary nature of our business, we are unable to share additional information.
Sincerely,
Privacy.com Team”
I am really shocked that my account have been deactivated even I didn’t use it even one time! This is really like a joke. What kind of service they provide! I really concern they just try to cheat people to open the account and get some of our personal information or bank information and then sell it. Then I write another email to them “I strongly request disclose what is the reason to close my account even I didn’t use it once. Otherwise I will post the communication recorder to the internet forum to share my experience and warn other people not to use your service (I really think you guy just try to use the customer’s information and sell to other companies). I may also file a case to BBB since your action really make no sense to me” but I received the reply below
“Hello,
Due to the proprietary nature of our business, we are unable to share additional information. We are so sorry for any inconvenience or disappoint.
Sincerely, Privacy.com Team”
I really worried about my personal information and bank information (I tried to delete the linked bank but it couldn’t). So anybody please be aware of my case and be careful with this company (they may just want your information and then close your account without any reason)