Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties

Re:Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity... by 0xffff2 on Friday April 19, 2019 @10:47AM (#19700050)

This is not generally the case in most parts of the US I've lived in either.

More importantly, it's purely a private business asking for your ID in this case, and only as an age check. In the vast majority of cases they don't record or really care about anything except your date of birth. No bar I've ever been to kept any kind of record that would have enabled them to tell the government that I had visited the establishment.

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Re:Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity... by ultrarunner on Friday April 19, 2019 @01:00PM (#19701086)

I’m not a lawyer, but Arizona’s age restriction law explicitly requires recording the details via mag stripe. Whether that applies to something not straightforward in the language I don’t know.

Either way, I routinely get comments about where I live, how my hair looks now, my birthday (coincides with a major date in the US). It’s very low level invasion of privacy, but most of the time I don’t want to small talk at the grocery store, I want to finish what I need to and go. N=1 and all that, but I get the point. At least no one under 21 ever drinks here.

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Re:Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity... by learc83 on Friday April 19, 2019 @11:41AM (#19700446)

They also stop doing it once you look old enough. I grew a full beard at 27 or so, and I haven't been carded for buying alcohol since.

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Re:Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity... by justtopostthis3 on Friday April 19, 2019 @11:51AM (#19700520)

Amusingly, I grew a full beard at 27 or so and started getting carded all the time!

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