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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9878246" data-attributes="member: 177">In the UK, are you required, in general, to have a government-issued ID? Because in the US, we are not. There is no required Federal level ID.Driver's licenses are the most common ID form here, but only 90% of us have them, and they are governed by State agencies. So, using them for age-certification across state boundaries would call for someone to handle verification with 50 different state agencies.Nobody said it was beyond human ingenuity.I said systems to do this didn't yet exist.As if Meta or Alphabet or similar big tech billionaire company wouldn't own those data management companies in short order?Pull the other one. It has bells on.And having some small number of corporate entities able to verify personal data on potentially every adult in the nation makes them massive targets or possible sources of abuse, exposing the public to huge personal data risk.Just requiring it without supporting it is nowhere near guaranteed to turn out well for the public you claim to want to protect.</blockquote>