Yes, I use my debit card from my work bank account - it's easier to do my expenses if everything is on the same bank statement (advertising, condoms, work flat bills etc) and it wouldn't occur to me not to? I don't for AW.because I pay for things there with the credits on the site.

What's your concern about using your card/legal name? You know that GDPR will mean a very hefty kicking to anybody who tries to play silly fuckers with people's personal information?

Prostitution is not allowed to be a company or registered at Companies House and nobody is allowed to share personal information because of GDPR as posted above

No, my work account is a personal account (even if prostitution was a permitted activity for companies, that would mean my details being public as a company director, as your post says). I have no concerns over a payment processor or website owner knowing my legal name - I'm not breaking any laws and it's not as if there's anything they could do with it? That said, there are not that many sites I pay/have paid to advertise on.

The maximum penalty for breach of GDPR (which is the legislation I've already mentioned that protects people's personal data) is an unlimited fine, and for what? Blackmail is also an extremely serious offence in the UK so again, I'm not sure what your concern is?

I'm assuming you don't use Adultwork.com, since you would need to send your ID to them for your listing to be verified?

I wouldn't really rely on GDPR, because who's going to sue or care if there's going to be a data breach from an escort website?

About blackmail, yes in theory it is a serious offence, but in practice it may not be taken seriously by police and prosecuted. I think it's better to be as discreet as possible from the beginning, than relying on the police or GDPR.

There's so many men who do really terrible things, for example assault their wife's or kids and aren't prosecuted by the police. Who will care about a data breach from an escort website or an escort being blackmailed?

Yes, you are right, I don't use AdultWork. I think they are quite ridiculous with their verification process. It's my own business what work I do and my right to keep my name private, as long as I pay my own taxes, I don't do anything illegal and I don't hurt anyone.

I'm pretty sure AdultWork and all other website owners can really distinguish who's independent and who's being pimped. It's quite easy to spot if the same IP address has more than a few profiles. An independent escort won't have hundreds of profiles from the same IP address during a few months, with different email addresses and phone numbers, but a pimp will have it. I don't believe they can't see the IP address, how the payment was made and the name of the cardholder. I doubt any pimp has hundreds of debit cards in order to pay separately for each new profile. Again, is easy to spot if the same card was used to pay for too many profiles. So I'm not sure why they want to know all our personal details.

GDPR is not concerned with where any data breach occurs, only that one has happened.

GDPR is not concerned with where any data breach occurs, only that one has happened.

That's good to know. Although better safe than sorry.
Do you know what GDPR do after they find out about a data breach? Do they clean all the data from the internet? I've heard nothing can be cleaned 100% once it's on the internet.

Yes, and there are people who attack, rob and even murder sex workers, people who mug others for their belongings and people who drive under the influence of drugs and alcohol. If we all worried ourselves into a frenzy about every possible thing that could happen, we'd never get out of bed.

Paying for an ad doesn't make your/my details public any more thany ordering a nail polish online from Space NK does - how would it? And as for somebody doing something with those details, what could they possibly gain from it given that they would lose their own livelihood (and no payment processor would ever touch them again)? Nobody is interested in knowing that I'm really Doris Smith who works legally and unremarkably as a prostitute - why would they be? I've been paying for ads for twenty years since the newspaper days, and literally nothing has ever happened.

You crack on - we'te not here to tell anybody how to live. But if you do nothing else you might want to find an accountant who knows what he's talking about; apart from anything else if he encouraged to to commit fraud and register as a different type of business for the purposes of evading tax as a limited company, you'll have some hellish penalties to pay when they find out.

I totally agree with you, and I'm not paranoid. I just wanted to know how others pay for their advertising and still keep their name private from the website owners. Anyway, is good to know your experience that you never had any data breach within 20 years because you paid with your own card and name.

You misunderstood me, my accountant didn't encourage me to commit a tax fraud. When I registered as self employed years back, I was doing a totally another job. I asked her to explain how I should count the amount for taxes and she explained it to me. Also told me that if I'll ever be lucky and have a big turnover after a certain amount, I can always register as an LTD and pay only 20% tax. Anyway since then I always thought that anyone, no matter what kind of job they do as a self employed can open an LTD and pay only 20% tax. It never occurred to me that sex workers can't do it, because it's legal to be self employed.

I totally agree with you, and I'm not paranoid. I just wanted to know how others pay for their advertising and still keep their name private from the website owners. Anyway, is good to know your experience that you never had any data breach within 20 years because you paid with your own card and name.

You misunderstood me, my accountant didn't encourage me to commit a tax fraud. When I registered as self employed years back, I was doing a totally another job. I asked her to explain how I should count the amount for taxes and she explained it to me. Also told me that if I'll ever be lucky and have a big turnover after a certain amount, I can always register as an LTD and pay only 20% tax. Anyway since then I always thought that anyone, no matter what kind of job they do as a self employed can open an LTD and pay only 20% tax. It never occurred to me that sex workers can't do it, because it's legal to be self employed.

The LTD tax reducing technique backfired during the pandemic, self-employed support was based on profits those who paid themselves less got less or in some cases because of the way they paid themselves from the LTD company got nothing from the government.