How does one personally value privacy and avoiding KYC (Know Your Customer)?
Background
For many decades now, I have placed an high personal value on privacy and on not using service's that require KYC. This is has often created friction between me and friends/family.
All Individuals have their own personal tiers of what is important to them and many times these tiers don't line up with others in a group or society. This concept, that others don't always think like you, is often a basic life lesson we teach people since they were a young child.
However, privacy and avoiding KYC appears to not be an acceptable goals to many people.
Two recent examples for context:
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Not attending Friend's Graduation Ceremony - This Graduation was going to require air travel and was being held at "secure" facility. Both of these items were going to require ID and background checks to attend.
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Business Trade Show - During the check in process to get one's badge for a trade show there was a "required" form to fill out. Usually I would just put junk data in and go about my life but this form was requiring a valid email/phone. I ended up just filling in the form with an actual email/phone (versus using a burner one) because I had my management team impatiently waiting in line behind me.
These are just two of hundreds of examples in the past decades.
Issue at Hand
The common reaction I get from friends/family is that I am being completely unreasonable in protecting my privacy and not participating in KYC.
In my personal experience people seem shocked that I would not go to a friend's graduation or
extremely frustrated with holding up the line at the trade show.
A large percentage of people appear to value doing things more than privacy. As mention above, we all have different tiers of what is important to us in life and this diversity amongst people makes the world an interesting place to live.
But the reaction I am experiencing to privacy is hostile. Example: Why would you put privacy in front of friends/family?
I have had very little success in convincing friends/family that their frustration should be directed towards the entities require KYC and not the Individuals who want to remain private.