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Why would they? The only reasons to show ID I can think of is when watching porn or maybe when buying alcohol online, though I doubt stores will want to risk driving customers away with that.

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Or using social media, signing up for any account where you can post content, and soon creating an account on your own device.

As for why would they, the same reason there are hundreds of tracking cookies on every site.

The same social media that stores everything down to your keystrokes? Sure, the problem is needing a gov ID, sure.

Self aware wolf. You don't see the problem with associating that level of tracking with your gov id?

Consider that stores create reward point systems specifically for the purpose of connecting a customer profile to purchases.

Yeah, the bigger chain stores already have most of this information. I don’t know if tying it to an actual ID would make much difference.

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