Question: Chaturbate wants my ID before I can broadcast. Is it safe to upload my driving license or other ID to CB?

Answer: Yes at the moment, but you can’t predict the future.

Is Chaturbate going to misuse your information on purpose? That is a clear no given that they are a large and reputable company that has been around for many years.

Could Chaturbate make a mistake and leak the data they hold to hackers? That is always possible, though still unlikely.

Other cam sites have made mistakes and leaked their data.

For example, Cam4 leaked a lot of data – over 7TB of it, though in the end none of it was very important.

A few other cam sites have had data breaches like this where some of their information was exposed to hackers, but it isn’t as though this is a regular event.

How careful the cam sites are you can judge by how often they make security mistakes, in the case of CB, not much at all.

Chaturbate is being proactive to protect itself from security issues by offering “bug bounties”.

If you haven’t come across those before that’s when a company gives people a reward for reporting security problems.

The idea is that the hackers will take the bounty, which is a cash reward, instead of using the information for nefarious purposes.

Chaturbate publicly offers various rewards for any security issues that you might find, and ethically report to them.

You can see the type of rewards they offer on the hacker bounty site called HackerOne.com where they report the terms and conditions of their reward program.

This sort of serious and proactive attitude towards security means that it is highly unlikely that they will have an unmitigated security problem.

Not impossible of course, but unlikely.

Does this answer the question of whether it is safe to give them your ID?

Well, I have given them my ID and so far so good. I’m not really worried about Chaturbate’s safety issues. If you want to do cam2cam at Chaturbate you can’t avoid showing some kind of ID, that is for legal reasons to ensure you are at least 18 years old.

And despite what some people think, Chataturbate can’t see or hear you without your permission.

Do you have a safety or security concern about Chaturbate? Let me know in the comments.