No, I will not pipe down.
Yes, it is standard protocol for some kind of loan service. In fact, when I bought my last vehicle, I had to provide a lot more inforamtion than that. The important difference here is that I was physically sitting in front of the man that took it, not making a photocopy and sending it to some operation in a foreign country, and I know that if something happened that the laws will put him and his accomplices in jail for a while.
MA isn't a registered loan company. It is a company that develops and sells it's main product: a computer game. As stated by Frank twice now, this is just for updating your account, not for any form of loan security.
I don't know about you or where you live, but where I come from the cases of identity theft are rising every year, and at a very alarming rate. I, for one, have a significant problem with sending exactly the information that a thief needs to create a false identity to a foreign country. A country where my home laws do not apply, and where it is difficult, if not impossible, bring someone to justice for that type of crime when the crime happened to someone not of that nationality.
I buy foreign products quite often. Yet, when I do, I don't have to hand over the core of my legal identity to do so just to make sure that they have the right information for me. It doesn't matter. As long as the transaction is valid and there is no fraud reported on it, everything is just fine.
Since anyone can update their account on the website, this whole thing was totally unnecessary. MA could simply have said, "Hey, please log on to the website sometime between now and X and update your account. Any accounts that are not updated by X will be locked pending deletion" and none of this would have had to happen.