Hand Over Your Life

It's getting scary when you have to be scanned to get a beer.

Daily Speculations relates his experience with local businesses scanning ID:

..entering a local restaurant for drinks and dining. Inside, a pimply kid is taking IDs and swiping them through a similar reader that is generating paper receipts. Below his chair is a pile of dozens of receipts. I pick one up and observe it contains, among other things, the name and driver's license number of the person being scanned. When my turn comes to be scanned, I refuse. The kid says everyone gets scanned, even my 36-year-old self (my friends say I don't look a day over 40). I refuse again, as do several others in my party. I allow him to carefully examine my ID but not to scan it. He calls the manager.

I can't believe people give up this information so willingly. In my younger days, yeah. Now that I'm a senior citizen, I don't take this crap lightly or quietly.