Excessive DOB requests

[MarkCO]

I may have spilled some brake parts cleaner on that spot.

[XJ]

April 1st, 1900

[Aloha_Shooter]

April 31st, 1988

[Irving]

April 1st, 1900

You must do a lot of shopping on MySpace.

[brutal]

You can not buy certain age restricted items without proof of age. However, the retailer has a variety of options to verify age. The request of your DOB is a liability deflector for the retailer and likely is a requirement of their insurance carrier. While not giving your actual date of birth is a good idea, lying about a purchase of a restricted item is not a good idea either. I tell them they can not enter my date of birth, but would they be able to enter January 1 of my birth year and be okay. So far, they have agreed that satisfies their requirement and avoids a potential issue.

The magnetic strip on my state issued ID does not work anymore either.

Great, now NSA is going to think those are all my purchases.

[rbeau30]

Do they read to you the Privacy Act of 1974 when they ask you for this information.... DOB is protected information.

They are required to provide you Why they are gathering this info, What they plan on doing with it, and Whom they intend (and if so) on releasing it to.

It is sad that Privacy even needed an ACT in the first place.

[HoneyBadger]

Great, now NSA is going to think those are all my purchases.

Yeah, you buy some weird stuff!

[sabot_round]

Just give them Hillary Clinton's DOB, October 26, 1947. That will fulfill their requirements, and it puts a bulls-eye on someone else.

[Mr.Fred]

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[KevDen2005]

I wanted to get a post in before this either got locked or Mr. Fred got banned.