State ID is increasingly scanned/stored on store exchanges Commerce, Privacy Add comments Nov 212012 Yet another way to have your authoritative personal information taken and compiled into a database is by doing product returns or exchanges, an activity which is most common around the holiday gift buying (and exchanging) season. Retailers increasingly will not do an exchange or refund without scanning your driver’s license for insertion into a national retailer database. Leave a Reply Cancel replyYou must be logged in to post a comment.