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by hot_gril 723 days ago
It's kinda impossible to give out DL, SSN, etc to so many companies and not have it leak. If these theoretical lawsuits scared companies enough, they might pay some centralized third party to handle the verification for them, but bad things follow from that.

The federal and state governments hand out these IDs in the first place. Shouldn't they be the ones to verify them?