[efitz]

A human glancing at an ID is not creating a log or transmitting every unique identity to the government.

If you handed over your id, and the person checking it made a photocopy and handed it to a police officer who put it in a file in a briefcase they carried, you might feel differently.

[fmobus]

aren't a lot of bars in the US scanning the id card with some purpose-made id scanner? Seem to remember reading about that, and it being the US I would guess that data gets very much stored/shared/molested.

[sejje]

Yes, they are. The systems aren't even expensive, and they have some features like they track people who have been trespassed, etc.

However, you can buy fake IDs online, and the IDs are reportedly beating those machines. So if you trust the machine for age-verification, you might let in underage people.

[technothrasher]

The scanner manufacturers proudly advertise that their systems dump the scanned IDs to a back-end database for storage and later use.

[teddyh]

The future is now: <https://sf.gazetteer.co/why-do-these-castro-gay-bars-have-ts...>

[varispeed]

I remember last time I was in the club (decade or so ago), the bouncers were taking IDs and photocopying them and of course there was CCTV as well and police were visible outside of the club.

[domh]

This only happens in the UK in clubs that have a history of violence or drug use (often leading to harms and death) and is a condition of a license. This is nowhere near the universal experience here for showing IDs for entry.

[dgellow]

What country is that? Sounds insane to me

[varispeed]

Certain dodgy part of London, UK. There are no clubs anymore there.