Yet for Sydneysiders, a drink with friends is about to mean having their photo ID cards (such as drivers' licenses) scanned, recorded and checked against a privately-owned, linked-database of individuals banned from various venues.
Bridgeport, Connecticut began using license plate scanning cameras to hunt down vehicles owned by minor debtors.
The company has also built an impressive business of licensing scanning technology data to over 200 companies including Pricegrabber, The New York Times, Cnet, Consumer Reports, and Walmart.
Mr. Bruce asked to see his driver's license and scanned it with an electronic reader, to make sure he was at least 21.
Bar & Club Stats: Every time a driver's license is scanned, Bar & Club Stats wants to create a data point.
According to an ACLU report released in July (PDF) on jurisdictions where the technology is already in place, just.005percentt of license plates scanned revealed evidence of a serious crime.
They, along with scores of foreign rights holders, had objected to GBS 1.0 because under it Google would have gotten a license to scan all foreign rights holders' books and to commercialize those that were not commercially available in the U.S.
"Welcome to the Database Lounge" (March 21) quotes Frank Mandelbaum, chairman and chief executive of the license-scanning equipment manufacturer Intelli-Check, as saying: "It's the same information as the front of the license.
"It's the same information as the front of the license," said Frank Mandelbaum, chairman and chief executive of Intelli-Check, a manufacturer of license-scanning equipment based in Woodbury, N.Y.
If revelations about the DEA's license plate scanning seems almost exhaustingly minute compared to all the terrifying things we already know, it's still another major piece of evidence showing that the upper echelons of law enforcement have little to no interest in our constitutional rights.
It calls for photographing, and scanning the license plates of, cars and trucks at all bridges and tunnels and using sensors to detect the presence of radioactivity.
