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ID Tech May Mean an End to Anonymous Drinking
Anonymous Howard writes "If you visit a lot of bars and restaurants, you've likely crossed paths with driver's license scanners — machines that supposedly verify that your license is valid. In actuality, many of these scanners are designed to record your license information in addition to verifying them, and those that authenticate against a remote database are creating a record of when and where you buy alcohol. Not only that, but they're not even particularly effective — the bar code on your license uses an open, documented standard and can be rewritten to change your age or picture. Collecting our driver's license information is one thing, but collecting data about our personal drinking habits is not only a violation of, according to the ACLU representative quoted in the article, privacy and civil liberties, but this 'drinking record' could also create problems for people in civil and criminal lawsuits as proof of alcohol purchases in DUI cases or evidence of alcoholism in divorce lawsuits."
What could possibly fix your inability to finish the first sentence of the summary?!?
Take your Ritalin.
Sorry, but you're completely mistaken. A law being unjust is not justification for breaking. My stance is the one used in the Civil Rights movement, by Gandhi, etc. Take it up with any PoliSci professor and you'll see that I'm right.
Good job on y'all marking me flamebait because you don't like the argument. Seriously.