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Pay Dirt in Scanned Driver's Licenses

Posted by michael on from the sutter's-mill dept.

The New York Times has a good article explaining why handing over your national ID card to be scanned may not be such a good idea.

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  1. My drinking habits... by crumbz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    are my own. Any bar that is scanning my ID and keeping a record or pulling other data is not getting my business. Then again, when I buy beer at the grocery store and put it on my debit card, it is doing the same thing.

    We (the collective us) have been rushing at a breakneck speed down the tunnel of complete mediation. Everything about us will be known. Except perhaps to ourselves.

    Wow, that was pretty deep for this early in the morning...

  2. Re:No License? by Delirium+Tremens · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ah, it happened to me once, but the other way around. I was at a grocery store in California buying beer. The cashier asks for my ID and I show her my U.S. Georgia driver license. She then tells me that she is sorry but she is not allowed to sell alcohol to out-of-State resident.
    WTF?
    I eventually walked out of there with the beer because I happened to also have my Belgian passport with me. That was ok.
    Go figure. It has probably to do with rural superstition or something. Don't deprive Belgians of their beers!
    Could get dangerous. The world might stop spinning . An asteroid might hit the Earth.