Over 54,000 scanned Australian driver's licences found in open cloud storage
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The real issue I find is that your data is being handed off immediately by the bar to a third party provider, with whom you have no business relationship. The moment you hand over your ID, the bar is uploading it, and now the data is entirely out of your control. They could publish your home address (if you’re foolish enough to have the location where you sleep on your ID card, which is effectively public record) and you’d have no recourse whatsoever against them when people show up at your house, or at your hotel while on holiday (because the hotel bar published/leaked a name+location+timestamp).
At the least, it’s a major privacy violation; at the most it’s a physical safety issue.
Make a fuss. That shit’s absolutely over the line. Take the whole group somewhere else.
If you blow up and start yelling at the bouncer (who will get fired if he doesn't scan your ID), you're taking it out on someone who can't change the policy, and you're going to sully the entire evening for the rest of your group. Contact management, absolutely, but causing a fuss at the scene is less than effective.
And there is a flipside to the physical safety issue - there were two stabbings (and countless other attacks) in the club I worked at, and we were able to positively ID the attackers within ~30 minutes of the incident, which led to their arrest hours later.
Showing ID doesn’t make anyone safer; indeed your bar violated everyone’s privacy and on multiple occasions someone STILL got stabbed. Worst of all options. It makes everyone less safe.
Privacy is a basic right.
Don’t give a single dime to organizations that act otherwise.
I accidently found some of them, you can download 'sensitive' patient data, illness/disease information specifically labelled and categorized waiting for you to collect.
Some of those also include family-tree information, random ID scans (driver's license, national IDs etc), and contract scans (hand-signed versions)
I found those back in 2017, even though notified respective hospitals and institutions, they're still open. Given WFH/remote-working practices are more common now, probably there are more.