Hi Scottbit, Fred here from Ardeva.
Ardeva is a registered Canadian company located in Laval, Quebec, Canada.
Once we approve documents you send us, they are encrypted directly by our system with a public key, while the private key is stored on a few USB drives at safe locations. Once a week, we move all encrypted files from the server to external offline storage as an extra layer of security. We basically parse the required informations from your documents, save them in our database, and then encrypt the files. We don't use your ID/documents for anything except for legal purposes (i.e. you run away with somebody's BTC).
I hope that answered your concerns, and I invite you to contact us at
hello@ardeva.com if you have any questions about our service.
Regards,
Frederic Houle
Ardeva Founder
But you
do store someone's complete identity information. Bitcoin was supposed to be anonymous. But then again catching scammers wont be possible, oh wait.. I totally forgot, scammers use their own identities online !! They would never steal someone's identity to scam someone else, oh no.
Yes that makes so much sense.