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I'm so sick of retail clerks who insist on scanning the barcode of my driver's license. To verify I am 21 you don't need my height, weight, eye color, and home address. You can ascertain that my visually inspecting just the first two digits of my birth year.

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Do they actually compare the picture on the driver's license to your face or do they only scan the barcode? In some cases the barcode is on the backside. I've many times seen that they don't even look at the side of the card with the picture. So you can just present a suitable barcode for them to scan. "Verification" indeed...

Sounds like you may be aware, but no one should allow that to happen. When showing ID in retail situations I don't allow it to be removed from my hand.

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