It’s probabilities. If you report it you’re 100% out of a job but only maybe prevented something bad from happening. If you don’t report, you keep your job but maybesomething bad happens. Reliance on a job for survival shifts the decision even further to taking the course of action that’ll keep you your job.

Of course they don’t use it. They want your data, not just your age. As long as the government does not make using ID this way for age verification mandatory*, companies will continue to use processes that give them the most data that they can sell.

*: As in not making verification mandatory but if a company wants to do it they must to it this way

Kids don’t buy cars, so why would they care /s

And if you do something we don’t like, we’ll lock you out of your account and all of your data without any recourse!