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


From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:02:19 -0500 (CDT)

WHAT

Do I get happy hour for it whenever, or some percent off? :P

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Gordon Darling wrote:

<snip>

Beer fingerprints to go UK-wide
Yeovil, an example for us all
By Mark Ballard
Published Friday 20th October 2006 17:45 GMT

The government is is funding the roll out of fingerprint security at the
doors of pubs and clubs in major English cities.

Funding is being offered to councils that want to have their pubs keep a
regional black list of known trouble makers. The fingerprint network
installed in February by South Somerset District Council in Yeovil
drinking holesy is being used as the show case.
 
"The Home Office have looked at our system and are looking at trials in
other towns including Coventry, Hull & Sheffield," said Julia Bradburn,
principal licensing manager at South Somerset District
Council.............
<snip>


more at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/20/pub_fingerprints/

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gordondarling<at>dsl<dot>pipex<dot>com

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