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I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 7 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Most of this seems very serious and concerning, but...

Nexus also claimed to provide scans of marijuana dispensary cards

What could anyone possibly do with that? It costs like $50 to get one in California, not sure about other states.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The data gets sold in blocks usually. Could be for identity theft, or SIM swap attacks or any number of things. A lot of things online want an ID scan now, so this is a huge benefit to scammers.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I still have to see the online service or site asking for my ID. Maybe because I'm mostly off of the bullshit-net for the most part. But the moment any service I use asks for ID, it's getting cancelled and blocked in my house at the network level. I'm expecting my digital life to be dramatically downsized moving forward.

    Car rentals, well, not many options there when traveling, since I absolutely refuse to use ride-share apps like Uber and such.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Legal weed in CA now dawg. No dispensary card needed

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Less taxes in most places if you have a med card. Financially sensible if you buy a certain amount per year.

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