Credit cards don't validate age. I set my kids up with authorized user cards when they started going out with friends.

Maybe they should. It would be far less intrusive for venders who wish to sell age restricted goods to simply have it built in like that.

You want to let every merchant I swipe my card at know my age? To improve privacy?

	▲	galleywest200 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No, the assumption is that you must be 18 years old to apply for a credit card. Surely we could have the machines determine that an "authorized user card" does not guarantee 18+ but the actual card does.
	▲	nairboon 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		They don't need to know the exact age. But if kids couldn't get credit cards... then possession of a credit card would be a proof of adulthood.
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	▲	ACCount37 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		An absence of "this user is underage" flag would be good enough. Less than 1 bit of private information leaked by transaction.
	▲	scottlamb 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		ceejayoz> You want to let every merchant I swipe my card at know my age? To improve privacy? Remember the site guidelines: SG> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. The obvious solution is instead of "every transaction comes with the user's birthday", the vendor can in some way set a minimum age enum of say (13, 15, 18, 21, 25) — a handful of ages that are significant with respect to some law or regulation. Then the transaction succeeds or fails.

neither does my face but that isn't stopping them, so what exactly are we doing here

Isn't the face scan intended to validate your passport, which you show, and does demonstrate age and identity?

haha wait they ask for passports too?

	▲	ceejayoz 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The Fable shutdown requires them to limit access to US citizens.