[myspy]

Apart from outsourcing credit card data, what else could be different when that data is more secured than the more important personal data?

[nonrandomstring]

Not having the data at all.

It's almost impossible for those of us who've grown up in the last 40 years of commercial computing to imagine.

But it's possible to radically decouple identity from function.

[nutrie]

Precisely. Tell it to the marketing director, you can watch him go hairless in real time.

[roenxi]

I'd imagine there is quite a lot of legal pressure against doing that. Not knowing who your customers are seems like the sort of thing that would eventually involve lawyers.

mullvad.net was interesting to me because I could pay with Monero, meaning that they may actually have no data about me whatsoever except whatever is technically required for a VPN connection. Pretty cool company but it seems like the sort of model that would struggle in most countries with the amount of financial monitoring that tends to be in place.

[benoliver999]

Mullvad VPN does this. No email. No password. Just an account number. If you want to to send them an envelope full of cash, you can.