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by stubish 30 days ago
This already happens with the existing system. Even before the internet, drivers licenses would get shared so under aged people could buy beer. The same laws, punishments and policing apply and really the best we can do unless you want to start tattooing id on people at birth.

So not a perfect system, but an improvement over the status quo.

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I think it’s quite different. If I loan my license to my friend he could get it confiscated and I could be I trouble. I would certainly not loan it to someone I only know on-line.

I don’t see why you can’t have a chip in the ID to perform to age verification without exposing identity.