Scanning driving licences when buying alcohol [USA]
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slashdot article said:
If you visit a lot of bars and restaurants, you've likely crossed paths with drivers license scanners — machines that supposedly verify that your license is valid. In actuality, many of these scanners are designed to record your license information in addition to verifying them, and those that authenticate against a remote database are creating a record of when and where you buy alcohol. Not only that, but they're not even particularly effective — the bar code on your license uses an open, documented standard and can be rewritten to change your age or picture. Collecting our driver's license information is one thing, but collecting data about our personal drinking habits is not only a violation of, according to the ACLU representative quoted in the article, privacy and civil liberties, but this 'drinking record' could also create problems for people in civil and criminal lawsuits as proof of alcohol purchases in DUI cases or evidence of alcoholism in divorce lawsuits.
Just wait until the National ID Card scheme starts up in the UK, they'll be doing that sort of thing here. They'll probably extend it to cigarettes and even to the food you buy, so if it's overall high in salt or polyunsaturated fats, you'll be denied treatment on the NHS! - StreakyThey already do it in some clubs:
http://www.idscan.co.uk/
"Captures the full id image including photos"
http://www.idscan.co.uk/
"Captures the full id image including photos"
Bing o said:
Plotloss said:
They're already doing that via clubcard at Tesco in Slough.
Pilot scheme.
Haven't tesco's been doing that for ages - they must have a record of whta you spend on your clubcard to send through the personalised offers?Pilot scheme.
In Slough Tesco are sharing their clubcard data on certain paitients with a local doctor so the Doctor can see their eating habits.
Plotloss said:
Bing o said:
Plotloss said:
They're already doing that via clubcard at Tesco in Slough.
Pilot scheme.
Haven't tesco's been doing that for ages - they must have a record of whta you spend on your clubcard to send through the personalised offers?Pilot scheme.
In Slough Tesco are sharing their clubcard data on certain paitients with a local doctor so the Doctor can see their eating habits.
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