The wall that isn't there: Privacy.com and Lithic are one company
New Card Every Time. Same File Behind It.
Privacy.com sells disposable virtual cards to people who want purchases kept private, and its own agreements show it is the same company as the card-processing business Lithic. This brief asks what the service actually hides, from whom, and how long the company keeps the identity-linked record of what was bought. Built from the company's policies, product pages and agreements, legal-entity and trademark records, and bank record-keeping rules. For principals and family offices deciding which purchases belong on the service.
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How it happens
Payment trail
A payment record ties a purchase, place or merchant to a verified name and keeps it.
More on identify and link →- Mechanism · Acquire and collectProvider-held copies. A provider retains copies, keys or logs (backups, notifications, AI conversations, purchase records) beyond what the user sees or deletes.