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Re:San Francisco's Least Welcome Start-Up Explains Itself by greghinch on Saturday May 19, 2012 @02:55AM (#3995293)
I don't know, by the same logic you could say you have a right to not let other people look at you in public (you don't). I understand the desire for a right to privacy (despite no such explicit right being anywhere in the constitution), but when you are in public, you be definition give up some privacy.

The thing is, I think most people who object to this so much would probably never even visit those bars where people care what the "scene" is like anyway

Re:San Francisco's Least Welcome Start-Up Explains Itself by MBlume on Saturday May 19, 2012 @03:46AM (#3995384)
This. I'm having serious difficulty imagining that anyone would object this much if the bar simply hired someone to sit in the corner, count the men and women, and post the numbers on a twitter feed.
Re:San Francisco's Least Welcome Start-Up Explains Itself by anthonyb on Saturday May 19, 2012 @04:17AM (#3995439)
Because it's a very short hop from what's described here to full-on tracking, and some marketing company knowing where you are, what you're doing and who you're with at all times.

It's a similar situation to Google's street view - sure, it's in theory in the public domain, but when you start aggregating this sort of thing and making it searchable, it's different.