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Exactly. The same way that selling alcohol doesn’t require a paper trail of every beer I’ve bought.
by pokstad 5mo ago
Exactly. The same way that selling alcohol doesn’t require a paper trail of every beer I’ve bought.
- SecretDreams 5mo agoTo be fair, I buy my beers on CC. If someone really wanted to know the best IPAs and session able beers they could get, they could audit my CC records and then cross check to the breweries and pubs to see what I was buying. Just depends how much someone wants to learns bout good beer.
- normie3000 5mo agoAnything under 4% should be sessionable IME.
- pseudalopex 5mo agoYour point was what? No one should be allowed more privacy than you wanted?
- SecretDreams 5mo agoMy point was mostly a joke about drinking beer in response to the OP drinking beer. But the underlying darkness is that if you're paying for things using a CC, you've already given up on your privacy, but it's implicitly lost, rather than explicitly.
- win311fwg 5mo agoNot anymore, at least. In these parts your alcohol purchases did require a paper trail once upon a time.
- rationalist 5mo agoI don't know about this, stores around me are scanning people's IDs to verify their age. I guess I could make an ID (not a counterfeit government ID) that uses the same encoding for the birthday.
- Tangurena2 5mo agoThey are scanning the PDF 417 barcode on the back. Here are the specs for what appears on the driving license/ID and how to read the barcode: https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/99ac7057-0f4d-4461-b0a2-3a5532e1b35c/AAMVA-2020-DLID-Card-Design-Standard.pdf https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/99ac7057-0f4d-4461-b0a2-3a553... They issue a new spec every 4 years.
- rationalist 5mo agoThank you!
- pseudalopex 5mo agoStores collect not required customer information often.
- xdennis 5mo agoAfter a while you age out of getting carded. The vast majority of alcohol is bought without ever showing any ID.
- rationalist 5mo agoI aged out of getting carded a long time ago, but I'm seeing stores where their policy is to card everyone. I was behind an old man with white hair and a cane who was bewildered when he was carded.
- Aerroon 5mo agoAnd yet in practice they do. Well, not every beer but when you shop at Beers-R-Us they know.