This could put a real dent in the fake ID market.
The New York State Senate is moving forward with proposed legislation that would allow bars and restaurants to use facial recognition or fingerprint scanners to verify someone’s age before they buy alcohol, tobacco or electronic cigarettes.
“This is the new frontier of age verification,” said state Sen. James Skoufis, who is sponsoring the biometrics bill. “It does advance the interests of convenience.”
Skoufis envisions that bars and restaurants could scan fingerprints, faces or retinas of customers who want to be spared the trouble of showing an ID when they return to an establishment in the future. The proposed legislation requires all data to be encrypted and prohibits businesses from selling biometric data to third parties.
“No one’s forced into engaging with this technology, but they would have the choice,” Skoufis said. “There’s no big brother involved.”
Skoufis, who chairs the Investigation and Government Operations Committee, said he expects his committee will advance the proposal to the full Senate Monday. There is currently no sponsor in the Assembly though Skoufis said several members have expressed interest.
State lawmakers are scheduled to adjourn for the year on June 2.
Washington state approved a similar proposal in 2018, which allows spectators at professional sporting events to pass security and buy concessions with their fingerprints.The legislative language states that the State Liquor Authority and the state Department of Health would be responsible for crafting regulations controlling the recording and maintenance of biometric data, which the bill states must be “stored in a centralized, highly secured, encrypted biometric database.”
Expanding the use of biometrics means privacy risks for New Yorkers, according to Albert Fox Cahn, a visiting fellow at Yale Law School and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. And unlike a credit card number or driver’s license, biometrics canno ever be changed, he added.“This is a horrifying invitation for identity theft,” he said. “If one bar or restaurant gets hacked, our identities are compromised for the rest of our lives … more biometric data, potentially expands the power of government agencies to track us because this data is just going to be one court order away from being turned into a policing tool.”
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I presume this nonsense won't pass and will hopefully end his political career.
Speaking as a registered democrat.
Why are they so concerned about young people buying these things? They will get it from someplace anyway. I suggest you instead worry more about the real criminals released on bail reform than worrying about some 16 year old smoking. And if they don't smoke or drink, they will start doing cocaine or some other shit.
Face recognition is the least accurate and is rife with privacy concerns.
Face surveillance threatens rights including privacy, freedom of expression, freedom of association and due process.” The Dems are all in on censorship too.
Barack Obama Calls for More Censorship: First Amendment ‘Does Not Apply to Facebook and Twitter'
Can you imagine if the police arrested you and all they had was evidence from a pretend crime scene that they created?
"Conspiracy Theorist" is now a badge of honor. It means you'll be proven correct in about six months.
Next up: Covid vaccines with microchip implants…
To Third Anonymous from Top (and also bottom) who said, "Barack Obama Calls for More Censorship":
Since the 'O-BOMB-YA' administration, we live in a society that is so intolerant, that our children’s teachers will get in our faces, the CVS clerk will snap back at us vengefully, and road rage is a daily occurrence. This is the 'WOKE' culture in action (or, inaction, as it were). I want to take back NYC, Congress and my life, not to mention the REST of our Stockholm Syndrome beholden nation of government fearing, tax burdened citizenry.
Worse, all of this imprisoned control is to protect the oligarchs. If we were not enraged and distracted by complete nonsense, then they would see how the kleptocratic 1% oligarchy have taken over our government, and everything else on this waylaid-out planet of willful, supportive slaves to what has already hastened their powerless and pitiful demise. This is about misdirection, peons.
In fact, no one cared a lick about any of this——UNTIL, that is when Bull$hitlary was beaten by a game show host. Only then magically, did all of this come about. Please vote conservative in 2022.
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