Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

On 10/24/06, Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com> wrote:
> On 10/24/06, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
> > Look at it as a blacklist for assholes, used by pubs at their
> > discretion. :P
> >
> > _______________________________________
>
> Well, the article makes it sound like the fingerprint scanners are
> almost mandated by the govt :
> ----------------------------------
> Oh, and (bar owners) are also coerced into taking the fingerprint
> system. New licences stipulate that a landlord who doesn't install
> fingerprint security and fails to show a "considerable" reduction in
> alcohol-related violence, will be put on report by the police and have
> their licences revoked.
> ----------------------------------
>
> So I think there may be some more nefarious features built in, if not
> advertised. I would be willing to bet that it will search a database
> at the Yard to see if anyone has any unpaid parking tickets and such.

So what exactly are you trying to say here? Solly would gladly sell
you out because he feels you're an arsehole - privacy be damned?!
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