Verification of your identity serves two purposes. First, verifying a user's identity is an important component of our Trust & Safety program; because we cannot meet users in person and validate traceable means to get in touch should an incident occur, we use government identification validation to do so. Secondly, we are unable to process payments to you without identification verification being completed as part of the bank verification process.
If you’d like more information regarding the identification verification process and the security of the Stripe platform, please visit this FAQ.