That, and MasterCard and VISA wanted more businesses to use card authentications for age checks. Businesses have been skipping authentication to save on fees, and they knew that even if other technology came along they’d still get a few more. Literally, the OSA only vaguely describes ID or face scanning (because the technology didn’t really exist at the time), but spells out card transactions as the default method of age verification.
This was the intention all along.
That, and MasterCard and VISA wanted more businesses to use card authentications for age checks. Businesses have been skipping authentication to save on fees, and they knew that even if other technology came along they’d still get a few more. Literally, the OSA only vaguely describes ID or face scanning (because the technology didn’t really exist at the time), but spells out card transactions as the default method of age verification.