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In my country if you want to buy booze online, you verify your age by logging into this id check service the banks have set up. The bank will only send if the buyer is 18+ or not to the store. So no identification data is send to the store not even the actual age.
You'd have to rely on your country's banks not relaying all info anyway, pinky promise, but it's an interesting model.
Banks know your age anyways, so it stops the system from sucking more than it already does