>Not so sure about that. Handing an ID to a bouncer at a bar or similar is not logging anything. Mainly it's some big man that you can see gears turning to see if the date is correct and a cursory glance to see if the photo matches. Sophisticated places might have a scanner that does what ever validation it does, but again, it's just another cursory check of the photo. Most of these people really don't care.

Not necessarily true. There's a local stripclub that scans and saves the scan to fight chargebacks and the like. It is definitely logging stuff. They've told me that they were going through the logs once and the bartender ended up googling my fullname. We're cool and I didn't care, but this what you said is not a blanket true statement. I trust a physical business that I can visit far more than some ID verification company that is going to get hacked at some point.

The tech companies care even less than the bouncers do.

They just want a plausible defence should it ever end up in court.

How does a tech company calling into a government database to verify your identity maintain your anonymity?

> Not so sure about that. Handing an ID to a bouncer at a bar or similar is not logging anything.

> Sophisticated places might have a scanner that does what ever validation it does, but again, it's just another cursory check of the photo.

Many/most bars do scan IDs now. Ostensibly it's to verify that it's real, but they do use those systems to keep a log of everyone who enters.

Well then it’s a good thing my fake id is from a state or foreign government without a checkable database