Excessive personal info requested on applications
I have noticed that agencies such as career.aero aka Interpersonal and more than a few airlines are in the habit of requesting, on first contact, such sensitive data as passport scans, date of birth, full residential address, even mugshots!
This is extremely foreign to every other industry that I have worked in. It seems excessively intrusive, a major risk from an identity theft point of view and completely out of line with EU data protection rules.
I would understand generic questions such as whether or not the candidate has a passport valid for at least another X months, whether they have the right to work in EU/wherever, whether they are within a certain height range as appropriate to certain cockpits, etc. After telephone screening and if invited for a personal interview, then the candidate can bring the requested documents and those can be checked. Eventually when making an offer copies would be obtained as necessary.
Why is it not done like this?
I'm not even getting into the ads that blatantly ask for minimum / maximum ages, etc.