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Re:What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code? by hamandcheese on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:01AM (#27591704)
There are some bars in Sacramento, CA that not only scan your ID, but scan your face, and use facial recognition to match you with previous scans, ostensibly to make sure you aren’t sharing an ID with someone underage.

It is extremely creepy.

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Re:What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code? by ccn0p on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:28AM (#27592064)
time to avoid those bars. extreme oversight to ensure a 20-year-old doesn't drink. but hey at least the same 20-year-old can drive a car, vote for our public officials, and join the armed forces.
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Re:What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code? by yread on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:20AM (#27592772)
and buy a gun
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Re:What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code? by excitom on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:52AM (#27592400)
Ever go to a cannabis shop in California? Your driver's license is scanned. I don't know about the facial recognition part, but it wouldn't surprise me.
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Re:What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code? by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:07PM (#27595801)
Great! But I think we're talking about bars and restaurants.
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Re:What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code? by CRConrad on Sunday June 27, 2021 @11:03AM (#27652119)
Isn't it funny how shit like that is only reported from the USA? Here in the EU, the bartender looks with his eyes at the photo ID the teenage girl is holding up[1] and then pours her a drink.

But Yanks screech about European surveillance states, and denounce the evil EU and its "sheeple" citizens... Much better over there, of course, where it's just corporations and not the eevul gubmint that's doing it.

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[1]: That she borrowed off her elder sister...

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Re:What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code? by sunshineforever on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:22AM (#27591973)
There's a gas station store that does this in Portland OR. They have a facial recognition camera at the door that scans each person to enter the store after sundown.
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Re:What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code? by BurningFrog on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:34AM (#27592140)
I have a lot of sympathy for people working late night in crime prone jobs.
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