alt Hacker News> I can use SmartID to verify my ID (and age) in about 20 seconds when buying an energy drink at the local grocery store
Where do you have to show ID for that??
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I was also taken aback by this, but apparently it's a real trend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_restrictions_on_energy_dri...
Author is from Latvia (and so am I). You do actually get carded for energy drinks if you look under 30.
However, more relevant to the post, is that when you're ordering groceries online, you need to verify your age at checkout if you're buying stuff like alcohol (or energy drinks). It's trivial, and for a lot of people it uses the same authentication service that they already use to access their bank.
Under 16s can’t buy energy drinks in the UK
Edit: currently a voluntary but widespread scheme by retailers, proposed to be law. TIL
Only if you look 12
I think almost all of Europe. Have you ever tried teaching a room of 30ish teenagers all high on quadrupled RDI of caffeine? It makes distributing software on macOS seem like a walk in the park