I hear your running the Lib ping list this month...
Offer them your passport.
Farewell to anonymous anything. Between the scanning of your credit card, gas discount card, grocery discount card, online cookies, passport … your autonomy has been gone for a long time.
Just give them your voter registration card.
Hmmm thoughts. I think the author is a total dick and an idiot to boot. This why even though some few libertarian ideas sound ok, that libertarians themselves are best shunned lest you wind up being the unfortunate guest of one when he decides to prove what weird jerk he can be in a restaurant.
I have carried that burden for over 50 years. It's tuff. :)
My main thought on I.D. checks at stores is a simple one. I am 55 and when buying smokes or booze they ask for I.D. I asked one clerk if they ever felt like a complete and total tool for enforcing the company policy when only a total idiot would ever think that I was under 21. I think that most of them do indeed feel this way.
Thoughts?
Pansy?
I can’t buy a copy of Halo or Mass Effect, go see an R-rated movie, or even walk aorund in the local mall after 4 PM without showing someone my ‘drivers’ license’ as proof of age. After a friend and I were seeing how much information we could get from a few seconds of looking at each others’ rivers licenses and I could remember her entire address, when someone asks for proof of my age adn the age limit is something like 17 or 18, I pull out my college ID instead (it only has my name, photo, and a student ID number on it) and nobody ever seems to care.
So, who got FIRED from their JOB?
I would have walked out of the door. This company is actually very stupid as a major privacy breach on personal data from that scanner would cost them far more than a single alcohol fine and likely even more than losing their alcohol license for a while if they had several incidents.
When enough people say HELL NO, then they will stop. Undercover investigators don’t pay the rent. Customers who may object to being coerced into an open-ended invasion of their privacy have far more power than anyone does.
There also may be some issues in State law of fraud with respect to “uninformed consent”. At the very least, full disclosure of serving policy should have been made by a properly sized sign on every customer entrance. In many states such notice is required if the premises has video surveillance.
Are you nuts?
Whenever I buy beer, I ask if they want to see my ID. They don't.
That makes me want to buy more beer.
Resistance is futile.
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Put your license in the see-through window of your wallet.
If you are asked for it, show it police-badge style.
You are in control of your license. If some bureaucratic weenie asks you to take it out, ask them why.
If you don’t like the answer. Leave, then tell the corporate HQ why. At very least the manager.
Time to stand up. The author is 100% right.
This is the problem. The State has put the job of law enforcement onto the merchant.
I can understand why these merchants feel the need to do all they can to protect against a sting. It's Big Brother bullying another into doing its dirty work, and the honest citizen and the merchant are both the victims.
The last paragraph also nails it.
If I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not too worried about this. OTOH, if I were a Dimocrat, I guess I’d kick and scream.