I went to a concert last year. They wanted me to create an account on an app and do a full facial scan with ID, so i can walk in and grab stuff from a vendor area without paying. Incredibly lame perk for that kind of privacy intrusion.

Try asking the door person for their ID. They get all offended, tho' I can't imagine why. /s

As well as verifying ages, ScanTek boasts "collect marketing information from IDs and drivers licences, which business owners can use to target specific demographics with promotions"

And here we have the real reason why they want the scanning

Added security to keep the random asshole out, sure, but the marketing is the point. Fuck that shit, if rather not go out to a bar than this

Here in Slovakia I just show my ID to a bartender if he has any doubts about my age. And then he deduces my age based on the date of birth on the ID.

The worst part is all our data is stored on American servers run by megacorpos. ID information scanned by venue terminals is one, but even private health records and sensitive government documents are being chucked into Amazon S3, Azure/OneDrive and Dropbox.

The government should be prioritising secure, independent digital infrastructure but they're too busy giving our tax dollars to foreign consulting firms so they can build bad websites.

In Soviet Russia, bar keep tabs on YOU!

How is the most dystopian nanny state news always coming out from Australia first, and then the rest of the world rushes to copy them?

I take a illegal rave over this garbage anytime!

Wow. Minority Report continues to come true.

I remember dance clubs taking photos of id's back in the 90's. first time I encountered it and I was like. WTF! thing is back then they did not have the equipment and infrastructure to hold it long term and were not part of a chain or had been bought up by holding companies. It was the same with security cameras that at most kept video for a few days and sometimes only one. Once we got to never delete data it became a nightmare.

Every club I have ever been in has never been worth the price of admission

This would just deter me from going to those establishments. I guess they're doing so well they won't miss my business.

It's been like this for years in some areas, i think it was in response to the one punch law thing, phrased as if you harm someone else you are banned at them all.

It'll be grocery stores and the DMV soon as well.

ID scanning has been a thing at clubs in Canada for a long time. There was no marketing associated, but I imagine it was an easy way to identify people banned from the bar.

In my state, they haven't had me come in to update my photo in nearly 10 years. I have both lost and then gained weight in that time, I have been balding, my hair is graying, and I have to wear glasses at all times while my photo doesn't have me in glasses. I have never had a passport and have only now been looking into getting one considering apparently a Real ID just isn't enough proof for citizenship apparently.

I can't imagine that the old blurry photo on my license would easily be matched to my current face. Seems like it would be easier for a human to make that determination.