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Why were you surprised?

• ImJamal 4mo ago
  Not who you were responding to, but most of the western world requires IDs already. The US is an outlier on this issue.
  • kayo_20211030 4mo ago
    I don't think that's true. At least not in the European countries I visit.
    • dgellow 4mo ago
      It’s a EU wide requirement
      • kayo_20211030 4mo ago
        I dunno. I can go to Tesco in Ireland and the UK (fine, UK is not EU no more, but still Europe) and get a sim without ID.
        • hnav 4mo ago
          Nordics, Baltics and a couple of other countries are the places this still works. The rest of Europe is locked down.
        • dgellow 4mo ago
          You’re right, I was mistaken. A proposal circulated to have an EU wide ID requirement but it went nowhere. So it depends the country
• dgellow 4mo ago
  Because I’m from Europe, and we need to provide an ID to get a SIM card