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If a bartender asks to see your driver's license, that's fine. Now imagine a bartender asks to see your driver's license, and then run it through a scanner to c
by pickleglitch 1y ago
If a bartender asks to see your driver's license, that's fine. Now imagine a bartender asks to see your driver's license, and then run it through a scanner to capture a digital image of it, which they then store in a folder for the owner to peruse at their leisure. It's not the same thing, at all.
- kylecazar 1y ago100% agreed. Execution matters a lot, and the hope is that ZKP etc gain traction in verification flows to prevent such shenanigans.
- reorder9695 1y agoMy issue would be _anyone_ storing my drivers licence, and the only way I know no one is is if I don't upload it anywhere
- ndriscoll 1y agoThe difference in this scenario is that bars and retailers can actually do that and it's perfectly legal (AFAIK in the US), while a porn site doing that is explicitly illegal according to all of the bills I've read. If you hand it to a store clerk to read and they scan it real quick, you can't even react before it's done, and then what are you going to do? You have no recourse. The clerk almost certainly can't even remove the information. In addition to the legal side, digital ids do have some protections against this designed in.