NY eyes facial recognition to ‘card’
for alcohol, cigarettes, e-cigs
Posted By: Ribicon, 4/22/2022 8:20:56 PM
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.(Snip)“No one’s forced
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MARTA unveils electric buses for Earth Day
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MARTA celebrated Earth Day by unveiling its first electric buses.
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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.(Snip)“No one’s forced
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Democrats are making loud noises about January 6th again, claiming that coming revelations will “blow the roof” off the House of Representatives.
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According to a press release from Fox News, with last night’s broadcast legendary conservative talk radio and cable TV host Sean Hannity surpassed the late Larry King as the longest-running host of a primetime show in television history.
While Hannity’s accomplishment is indeed impressive, when we consider that Hannity is still only 61-years-old and that Larry King continued hosting Larry King Live into his late-70s, the milestone becomes even more remarkable and leaves us to wonder: For how long can Sean go?
According to Fox News:
“Today marks 25 consecutive years, six months, and 15 days..."
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You will submit to biometric scans in the interests of convenience, and you will like it. And your data will really, really not be sold to the CIA's Facebook and Google arms for additional data mining because that might compromise our hard-won liberties and freedumbs.