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Re:What's wrong with EU age verification? (Nothing) by fmobus on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @10:19AM (#48747282)
aren't a lot of bars in the US scanning the id card with some purpose-made id scanner? Seem to remember reading about that, and it being the US I would guess that data gets very much stored/shared/molested.
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Re:What's wrong with EU age verification? (Nothing) by sejje on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @10:34AM (#48747508)
Yes, they are. The systems aren't even expensive, and they have some features like they track people who have been trespassed, etc.

However, you can buy fake IDs online, and the IDs are reportedly beating those machines. So if you trust the machine for age-verification, you might let in underage people.

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Re:What's wrong with EU age verification? (Nothing) by technothrasher on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @10:33AM (#48747493)
The scanner manufacturers proudly advertise that their systems dump the scanned IDs to a back-end database for storage and later use.
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