KingGreene, Sorry no legal docs aware of, and haven't turned google's wheel yet, but I go by the situation, in bank it makes sense, they want to make sure that they are talking to YOU. there are also HKMA regulatory requirements based on transactions, to combat money laundering.
In phone companies, I do hand them my ID, if they need to find my account details to help me do something. Imagine someone going and just asking for someone else's data by just utterring their ID card #.
So I guess, common sense should prevail and never hesitate to ask, why do you need it? if they don't know or if you don't feel it's a valid request, just take off and say, sorry I need to think about it. Far too many companies do request it unfortunately, but it's mostly to verify identity and to tie our faces to the card that we hand over to them.
and yes, there are restrictions onwho can copy and you are even required to cross your ID card copy before you give it to someone.Just draw two parallel lines, as one would on a cheque to make it a crossed cheque andbetween those 2 lines write COPY. No one should object, specially gov't depts, asyou are not required to hand someone your ID "COPY", without doing this bit. ithink this rule was brought in, so people won't copy your data, though I don't seehow it helps, but I guess one could use such a photocopy (without the word and lines) to do stuff on the internet, where people are not able to physically touch the ID card to verify it's existence. Again, I don't know, this is a murky field for me.
And.. finally, this..
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