As others have pointed out, this question is from a year ago. To be clear, DigitalOcean does not ask anyone to upload scans of their IDs to imgur.
We do occasionally ask customers who have set off our abuse filters to verify their accounts by emailing us scans of their ID. We agree that asking anyone for ID isn't an ideal situation, but unfortunately we deal with a large amount of abusive and fraudulent signups.
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As others have pointed out, this question is from a year ago. To be clear, DigitalOcean does not ask anyone to upload scans of their IDs to imgur.
We do occasionally ask customers who have set off our abuse filters to verify their accounts by emailing us scans of their ID. We agree that asking anyone for ID isn't an ideal situation, but unfortunately we deal with a large amount of abusive and fraudulent signups.