I dont drink ay places that need to scan my ID and keep a record of it.
You've never been to a bar that swipes the mag strip on your ID? Or the many doctor's offices that take scans of your ID with your insurance card? I'm totally on board with ID cards not having your address on them because of the stalking potential but it's an ID card, if it has to be secret for it for it to be useful it's a really shitty form of identification.
No I've never been to a bar that swiped my ID. The bar does not need to know who I am.
Built-in watermark support. When the system eventually gets hacked and the pictures end up in the hands of hackers, their use will be limited due to a "COMPANY + DATE" watermark plastered all over.
the company will either go out of business as people claim costs associated with the breach, or you would get a $10 settlement from a class action. The watermark isn't worth anything, and doesn't add any trust.
>the company will either go out of business as people claim costs associated with the breach
Does this basically force people to have a Canadian bank account to survive?
Not strictly (as the sibling comment says), but also, in practice it doesn’t matter, as there are effectively no “unbanked” Canadians the way there are “unbanked” Americans. From https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/services/... : > In Canada, you have the right to open a bank account at a bank or a federally regulated credit union as long as you show proper identification. > You can open an account eve…
I don't know about Canada specifically, but generally there are situations where one can be waiting for a residence permit or waiting to be fully registered as a resident, etc. It can take several months in some western European countries despite the same laws that nobody can be denied a bank account. This can create a lot of inconvenience for legal residents that recently immigrated since some of those countries also have systems that use banks for ID.
Where does the need for hard verification of the age come from? My friends and I were using the internet when we were under 13 years old (although not by much), and just clicked the button to confirm that we are older than 13 (mostly on various forums), and later on the same thing with 18 years old verification screens, and we turned out alright (at least from my perspective.)
Depending on the country, it can be due to local regulation. I don’t think it is required yet in the US
E.g. AVMS in Europe. Youtube had to implement age verification.
No. If its not good for the public, then either don't use it, or pass legislation to ban it. subsidizing a business because they can't do it is wasting tax money for a video game.
Regulating that vast swarms of businesses need to make their own age verification system seems like a waste of economic value. Especially considering how many normal tasks that near everyone does would also benefit from such a government system: Loans, Rentals, Housing, etc. You would also only need to provide the evidence once to the governing body that gave it to you in the first place, instead of giving it to doze…
My taxes shouldn’t provide economic value to random companies who want to verify age, and creating a centralized identification system that is available to non governmental entities is ripe for abuse.