DamianTV
04-17-2012, 11:13 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2130454/Beauty-salon-customers-forced-fingerprints-taken-getting-tan-stop-using-sunbed-day.html
Tanning salons are taking customers’ fingerprints before letting them access sunbeds in a drive to curb excessive use.
Fingerprint scanners are being used at hundreds of salons as an alternative to checking membership cards to verify the identity of customers.
Bosses have brought in the ‘Big Brother-style’ measures to stop tan addicts from using sunbeds more than once a day.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/16/article-2130454-129F135E000005DC-9_468x355.jpg
Invasion of privacy? The Tanning Shop has been branded 'absurd' after insisting all its customers must have their fingerprints taken before topping up their tans
But critics said the move was ‘very worrying’, while computer experts raised fears that the sensitive data could end up in the wrong hands. Daniel Hamilton, director of Big Brother Watch, said: ‘Demanding customers hand over this kind of sensitive biometric data is both disproportionate and intrusive.
‘By taking fingerprints for such trivial purposes they are jeopardising the privacy of their customers for the rest of their lives.
(more on link)
What will the Government think of to protect us from next? Actually, forget that I asked, Im not sure I want to know.
Tanning salons are taking customers’ fingerprints before letting them access sunbeds in a drive to curb excessive use.
Fingerprint scanners are being used at hundreds of salons as an alternative to checking membership cards to verify the identity of customers.
Bosses have brought in the ‘Big Brother-style’ measures to stop tan addicts from using sunbeds more than once a day.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/16/article-2130454-129F135E000005DC-9_468x355.jpg
Invasion of privacy? The Tanning Shop has been branded 'absurd' after insisting all its customers must have their fingerprints taken before topping up their tans
But critics said the move was ‘very worrying’, while computer experts raised fears that the sensitive data could end up in the wrong hands. Daniel Hamilton, director of Big Brother Watch, said: ‘Demanding customers hand over this kind of sensitive biometric data is both disproportionate and intrusive.
‘By taking fingerprints for such trivial purposes they are jeopardising the privacy of their customers for the rest of their lives.
(more on link)
What will the Government think of to protect us from next? Actually, forget that I asked, Im not sure I want to know.