[mwakerman]

Australia has strict KYC and AML laws that means many financial institutions and fintech businesses will request drivers licences and passports as a part of user registration. This may well be common all over the world but I’ve had to upload a photo of my drivers licence to one service or another twice in the last month.

[sumedh]

Some bars also take a photo of your driving license, I found that very weird but didnt say anything because I didnt want to cause any fuss going with a group.

[sneak]

This happens at a lot of places in Las Vegas, too. I don’t give any business to places I can’t prove my age, walk in, and pay with cash without a record being made of my whereabouts.

The real issue I find is that your data is being handed off immediately by the bar to a third party provider, with whom you have no business relationship. The moment you hand over your ID, the bar is uploading it, and now the data is entirely out of your control. They could publish your home address (if you’re foolish enough to have the location where you sleep on your ID card, which is effectively public record) and you’d have no recourse whatsoever against them when people show up at your house, or at your hotel while on holiday (because the hotel bar published/leaked a name+location+timestamp).

At the least, it’s a major privacy violation; at the most it’s a physical safety issue.

Make a fuss. That shit’s absolutely over the line. Take the whole group somewhere else.

[nl]

I believe that is (was?) required in some parts of NSW. Eg, see "ID scanners in Kings Cross" on https://www.liquorandgaming.nsw.gov.au/operating-a-business/...

[tootahe45]

Why can't this just be centralized? upload KYC once and that one service verifies to other companies that you're legit, compared to uploading KYC to 33 different websites.

[mkj]

The post office is trying to centralise this.