Pub Patrons Down Under Subject To Biometric Datamining

mask.of.sanity writes with an excerpt from ZDNet Australia: "Pubs and clubs in Australia are signing up in droves to national and state biometrics databases that capture patron fingerprints, photos, and scanned driver licenses in efforts to curb violence. The databases of captured patron information mean that individuals banned at one location could be refused entry across a string of venues. Particularly violent individuals could be banned for years. The databases are virtually free from government regulation as biometrics are not covered by privacy laws, meaning that the handling of details are left to the discretion of technology vendors."

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When in Rome

[Anonymous Coward]

From a personal Kiwi perspective this does not surprise me - I am pretty sure they will require more than the combined efforts of Slashdotters to rectify this issue, I have always been an advocate of a really big wall around Australia