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They could do the same with current licenses, either temporarily or permanently. When I was in my 20's I had a stack of old but unexpired drivers licenses becau
by pavon 3y ago
They could do the same with current licenses, either temporarily or permanently. When I was in my 20's I had a stack of old but unexpired drivers licenses because having your current address on your license makes makes some things easier.
- mattmaroon 3y agoThat’s why a lot of places now scan the ID. Presumably the vast majority of times whoever lost/gave up/sold the ID got a new one from the local BMV and the old one will be flagged.
- xp84 3y agoI don't think (really, "I hope") that these scans aren't hitting the government database, allowing the government to easily build a dataset of every time you buy alcohol/tobacco/pornography/whatever -- that is uncomfortable even to me and I'm not really a libertarian. The 2d barcodes and magstripes on these cards do have all the info that's printed, though, so I would bet that a "gifted" ID that hasn't expired but which you've replaced or claimed as lost would still work at a retailer who scans IDs.
- jaywalk 3y agoYeah, the scanners they use for age restriction are just standalone devices that show the age without the user having to figure it out themself.
- 15155 3y agoThey scan an unsigned, unencrypted PDF417 barcode with AAMVA encoding with no attestation or online verification features.
- mattmaroon 3y agoHa, thats funny.