Kraken

An exchange account opens with a government ID and your face, and anti-money-laundering rules attach that identity to your transfers, passed along with them. Closing the account does not clear the file: the same rules keep it for at least five years after you leave.

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ID verification

Kraken routes identity checks to:

• Persona PURE VERIFIER THEIR STATED RETENTION Government ID and selfie data destroyed on completion of verification or within 3 years of the last interaction, per the client's instructions. IP addresses and device fingerprints also collected.

Provider terms from their published policies, read August 2026.

Self-serve privacy tools are available on their site.

DÆTRAX is a personal data accountability ledger: a dated record of which companies hold your personal data, what you asked them to do about it, and what they claimed in reply. Track Kraken on your record →