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ID Scanners Can Change How Your Local Bar Treats You—and Whether It Lets You In. (themarkup.org)

submitted 4 months ago by ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Bell@lemmy.world 59 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is why we need data protection laws here. We need to be able to control what these companies keep about us.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah like I don't have a problem with a shared database for bars to keep out bad actors. That sounds like a collaborative IRC banlist. But why does it have to involve keeping pictures of me and which bar I go to which night and all this other stuff