Probably not the same, in that an electronic device is reading the ID magstrip and storing the data instead just a clerk looking at your DL and then handing it back to you, with no data storage other than the clerk's short-term memory. I'm guessing the electronic device's memory is downloaded to a central location so the state or country Alcohol Enforcement Entity (or whatever) can verify that the store is in compliance . . . and probably pass the data along to the Social Credit system that Apple, Oracle, and a zillion other big companies are getting paid big money to create and maintain.
Probably not the same, in that an electronic device is reading the ID magstrip and storing the data instead just a clerk looking at your DL and then handing it back to you, with no data storage other than the clerk's short-term memory. I'm guessing the electronic device's memory is downloaded to a central location so the state or country Alcohol Enforcement Entity (or whatever) can verify that the store is in compliance . . . and probably pass the data along to the Social Credit system that Apple, Oracle, and a zillion other big companies are getting paid big money to create and maintain.