[gumby]

Increasingly, in the US, bars and stores swipe your DL to validate your age. This is in the name of making sure the id was checked and not requiring the bouncer/clerk to recognize all sorts of state IDs.

Really, all the info goes to the establishment and/or the company providing the reader.

The old fashioned “bouncer will forget all the info” doesn’t apply any more.

[switch007]

I've never had my id "swiped" in Europe. I'm sorry but your US experience has no relevance to the topic.

[toofy]

we’ve had it here in the us for long time.

privacy forums were recommending people run magnets over the stripes on id’s at least 10 years ago when companies started swiping them.

is the new digital id terrifying? probably. but honestly from a privacy perspective, the way companies and government working together suck up all of our digital movements is terrifying if privacy matters at all to us.

to me, this was an obvious next step considering the world we’ve decided to build. we’re doing this. government employees. corporation employees.

we’re allowing power to consolidate at a rapid pace. we can’t decimate the separation of governments and companies, then build company after company after company which heavily rely on human data for their profits, and then simultaneously be shocked when this happens.

either we have privacy from both governments and companies or we don’t. particularly in a world where we refuse to hold power to any sort of reasonable standards (and by “power” i mean governments, corporations, wealthy individuals, individuals with power backing them, organizations, etc…)

i guess my ramble really boils down to this: many of us on this exact forum are building the tools. many of us on this forum are directly enabling power of all kinds to consolidate. it isn’t clear to me how we can complain about it too.

[blitzar]

https://www.nightclub.co.uk/ https://www.gbgplc.com/en/industry/nightclubs-and-bars/

Know exactly who is using your venue, using ID card scanner technology to find out if an ID is genuine in a matter of seconds. Scanner has operated in every major city in the UK since 2003

https://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2013/04/concerns-grow-over-the-r...

[fmajid]

Er, the UK does not and has never had a national ID card system, and the British like it just so.

[M2Ys4U]

I have. The bouncer at a karaoke bar scanned my driving license. This was in the UK when we were still an EU member.

[petre]

I've had it at border control But this is normal.

Plus you will have an EU digital ID just like your credit card soon. I already have a biometric passport. Checking it is way faster than checking an ID. In Bergamo they had separate priority queues for biometric passports.

[ellopoppit]

I'm in the US and have never had my ID scanned like that person is claiming

[toomuchtodo]

I have my Florida drivers license scanned (barcode on the back) every time I purchase alcohol at Publix or ABC Fine Spirits. I’ve also had it scanned at bars.

https://www.flhsmv.gov/pdf/newdl/fl_2dbarcodecalibration.pdf

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...