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[–] mipadaitu 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

The drivers license number has information about gender and birthdate encoded into it. You can see enough of the number to know that this is someone who registered as female, and has a recorded birth date of 29 July '98. I assume this person isn't 126 years old, so we'll say they're 26.

You can tell it's an Illinois license, because no other state is as obsessed with Lincoln. (Edit: you can also read the Illinois in the seal in the back left)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Ooh, this is fun. Another piece of data is that we have most of what appears to be the zip code, so we can get pretty close to knowing where they are located:

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Someone else with an Illinois licence could probably use that to estimate how long their address that ends with "e Ave" is and narrow it down to fewer than 8 east-west streets in this town of around 12,000.

[–] naticus 12 points 6 days ago

Lol this whole thread is making want to find out all the encoding of my license too, but I don't even want to ask for help because you'll all somehow figure out my mother's hometown, my favorite pizza shop, and the location where I had sex by myself for the first time.

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