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Re:Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light o... by dagw on Thursday November 09, 2017 @06:52AM (#15661638)
It's not, I've held several. For EU countries.

As in an actual national ID that can be used to open bank accounts and cross borders, or some other sort of non-official ID that might be good enough to get you into bars?

Re:Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light o... by ryanlol on Thursday November 09, 2017 @07:54AM (#15661947)
Open bank accounts and cross borders kind.
Re:Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light o... by dfox on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:11PM (#15665479)
I suspect that what you have seen were all forgeries of temporary non-machine-readable IDs, ie. ID-2 format laminated cardstock, instead of ID-1 (credit card size) plastic (smart) card, which are good enough to cross land borders, for getting beer at bar or for cursory inspection by police, Such IDs are usually insufficient to open bank account (and generally rejected by anyone who cares, including many parts of government) or air travel.

Edit: or given the thread context you mean forgeries of the same level as US driver licenses for under age drinking, which is quite possible, but such forgery is readily distinguishable by anyone who has actually seen real EU ID card.

Re:Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light o... by ryanlol on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:29PM (#15665623)
>ID-1 (credit card size) plastic (smart) card

These.

>ID-2 format laminated cardstock

Not these, I've seen a plenty of US ones like this.

I am talking about forgeries specifically sold for the purpose of opening bank accounts.