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• @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange 2026-07-31 00:24

  @paris@hachyderm.io @thedarktangent@defcon.social @eff@mastodon.social This is not new—I first heard of it ~25 years ago. Drivers' license scanners were originally created to help catch fake IDs; the benefits to bars, given liability issues, ar obvious. But some brands *marketed* themselves with their ability to capture other data, to help create a customer database for targeted ads, etc. See, e.g., p 59 of https://www.nationalacademies.org/publications/10656. (Disclaimer: I was on the committee that produced the report.)

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