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Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken
From: "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:49:34 -0500
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?! _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken, (continued)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Drsolly (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Brian Loe (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Dude VanWinkle (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Brian Loe (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Dude VanWinkle (Oct 23)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Drsolly (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Gadi Evron (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Dude VanWinkle (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Brian Loe (Oct 24)
- Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken Drsolly (Oct 24)