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For me this is a catch-22 situation as personally I do not trust any organisation with my personal details. Unfortunately, if I need anything I do need to prove myself. You have no idea what goes on when you give a company some personal details. You do not know how competent they are handling your details or whether they actually sell on your details to third party vendors even though you check the ‘please don’t send on my details to third-parties’. Case in point is FCO breaching data privacy of 50,000 visa applicants…

“The personal details of 50,000 visa applicants were on view to visitors to a website run by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Information Commissioner’s Office has found. The Information Commissioner’s Office today found the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in breach of the Data Protection Act following an investigation into a security breach on the online application facility for UK visas.
The breach on the UK visas website allowed visitors to the site to see personal data of people applying for entry visas to the UK. A tip-off from Channel 4 alerted the Information Commissioner’s Office in May. It launched an immediate investigation into the site, which is run jointly by the Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office Directorate responsible for visa processing.”