a pint and a print

Two examples of the increasing ubiquity of surveillance. First:

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 holes is being used as the showcase.

Still, there’s always a carry out.

…Bradburn could not say if fingerprint security in Yeovil had displaced crime to neighbouring towns, but she noted that domestic violence had risen in Yeovil.

via. Also from the Register.

The issue is coming to a head because parents are preparing a case against schools that have installed fingerprinting systems over the summer and started fingerprinting children without their parents' consent.

"They should not be doing this," Gibb said of fingerprinting schools. "They should find another method of identification for borrowing library books."

Yes, I really rather think they should. Still: catch 'em young, eh?

Comments

[paul]

we used to have cardboard tickets, worked fine. But that was the good old days.

[paul]

we used to have cardboard tickets, worked fine. But that was the good old days.