But don't forget guys, uploading your government IDs to any old fucking website to prove your age is very safe and protects children. There's no way this could go wrong and everyone in the supply chain is very trustworthy

Also it doesn't help that, for example, at U-Haul, employees just use their personal phone to scan a QR code and take pictures of your ID.

I don't like it when a store scans my driver's license to buy alcohol. I stick to small convenience stores without that tech.

Luckily archive.org saved the idscan.net press release announcing their partnership with Planet13 dispensaries. They have since deleted the post on their site. Nothing shady about that. 😂

Annnd this is why a refuse to verify with IDs online and use services like Plaid. And the web of T&C's from multiple 3rd party services like this will mean all of them get shielded from blame.

Surely the company must be liable, right guys? Right...?

My elderly father recently fell for a Facebook imposter that pretended to be a family member and asked if their friend could contact him. The friend asked him to take a photo of his driver's license and text it to them, fortunately he doesn't know how. I've been wondering ever since what can they do if they had it? It doesn't have his social security number on it. His credit has since been locked and banks notified

The only way to fix this is to have us upload our IDs online constantly, perhaps to prove we are adults.

It is the only way we can we safe.

I bought a domain, configured the webserver in the next 5m.

As soon as it started taking requests (on a domain that i haven't even announced yet) it got flooded by bots.

Just rented a car. Fuck.

I got arrested this past Saturday... They called my mom to try and scam her.

This is yet another reason why virtual ID cards are superior: In the event that the card data is compromised, the old virtual ID can be revoked and a new virtual ID can be issued. Virtual ID cards can also have a much shorter duration, because the cost of rotating it is minimal. For example, California's virtual driver licenses rotate each 30 days.