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ID scan upsets bar customer
thechronicleherald.ca — Ian Miller stands in front of The Attic on Grafton Street in Halifax. He is upset that the bar is still scanning the information from IDs when customers are admitted, even after privacy laws came into effect last year.
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- IanMiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hi, thanks for digging this.
I'm Ian, the person interviewed in this article. A lot didn't get covered, nor when I appeared on TV, including why these systems do nothing for security and how Canadian federal privacy regulations are being ignored. Follow my link below for my personal views:
http://hypnohippo.com/id_card_swiping_at_canadian_club.html
I'm new to digg, am I better off to submit this as a story in itself? - webfx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't think I should have to hand over my personal information just to get into a bar.
Nice work Ian, thanks for protecting our privacy rights!!! - khoody, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree with you cats, lets be honest here, they are probably using it more so for marketing then security. I suspect this indirectly relates to spam and those annoying 1800#s calling conducting surveys, junk mail in my mailbox etc.
We the public need to get a handle on this...enough is enough. - KeMiKaLPHReaK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've been a patron of two establishments where this id scanning is enforced, The Dome in Halifax (the bar mentioned in the article) as well as the Corral in Grande Prairie, Alberta. I've also been strongly in opposition to this invasion of privacy since I first encountered it in 2003, in the mentioned article by Miss Stewart on the HackCanada website and have inquired multiple times as to why my id needed to be scanned, and was refused entry multiple times when I refused to have my privacy invaded. If it's so necessary to scan photo id to allow entry, how come when I was in the process of changing over my license, and only had a paper version, they allowed me access with another, non scanable photo id, or when I entered said establishments via VIP entrances, no scanning was required?? It's nothing more than a marketing ploy, as implied in all of the articles. Props for the action you taken to get you voice heard...I thought about doing something similar when it happened to me, but I never did. Hope to hear more of this in the future. :D
- Neoconned, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm new to Digg as well. Thanks to Ian I'm here. I see this a serious violation of individual privacy. Unfortunately most people are to dumbed down and blind to see it. When Martial Law is declared in America most of these people will line up and give up their civil liberties like sheep. Tyranny must be fought at every level. Keep fighting Ian.
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