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It seems to me that age verification via ID submission online and the subsequent storage of IDs are separate issues.


How could they be separate issues when the submission of an ID image obviously enables both the subsequent storage of the ID and also the presentment of the ID to others.

We know that very few organizations are capable of effectively controlling confidential information that they're legally bound to keep confidential. Requiring things that are going to lead to large stores of ID images is asking for trouble.

When you show your ID in a store, the clerk generally doesn't retain a copy of it, and if they do, it's apparent because they take the card to scan it... regardless, they can't take the scanned copy and present it at another store, because the other store will detect that it's not an original.


Because they are. You do not have to store the ID for verification: storage it’s just one way to implement such a system.

I agree with you that systems that store those IDs are ticking bombs.




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