• stoy
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    7 months ago

    I just read the article, and as an EU citizen, I very confused when looking at the sample ID…

    Why, oh why, would you ever need to put your adress on the card?

    That is stored in the national database of citizens, surely?

    What happens when you move?

    And whoever thought that weight needs to be printed on the card is just delusional that it serves ANY kind of actual scurity purpose.

    It changes constantly, there is zero use for it!

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      7 months ago

      I tried to renew a driver’s license that I lost once, and they asked me to verify my weight. That was 10 years prior when I was a teenager.

      I guessed wrong and they wouldn’t let me renew.

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      7 months ago

      It gets worse… Here in Oregon, if you moved, they would just print and ship you a sticker with the corrected address.

      Now, they don’t even do that. They update the address in the computer system, but the drivers license will continue to have the old address.

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        7 months ago

        So there is zero actual need for the address?

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          7 months ago

          It’s used as address verification for employers, but you just tell them “Oh, that’s old, my new address is…”