Privacy in the marketplace

Posted in Law, Politics by Elliott Back on April 28th, 2005.

The privacy pundits over at BoingBoing are hot and bothered because a tanning salon requires fingerprint identification to authenticate its customers. In the post, the original author writes:

WAYNE: “Hi, do you require a thumbrpint scan to get a tan there?”
TANNING BIMBO: “Yes, sir, we do.”

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I think the Arkansas chapter of the ACLU and the Arkansas state attorney general’s office need to be contacted

I think the answer to this is that you don’t need to use that tanning salon. If you dislike their “invasion” of your biometric privacy, you’ll have to go somewhere else.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 28th, 2005 at 2:40 am and is tagged with state attorney general, fingerprint identification, arkansas chapter, tanning salon, arkansas state, pundits, aclu, invasion, marketplace. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback.

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John 3 years ago 1 point
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I totally agree. On the other hand I think it's perfectly appropriate to say that 1) that's not acceptable behavior and 2) warn other folks about it and 3) suggest that people make a stink over other companies doing the same. The Fear of Bad Publicity(tm) is one of the so-called market forces that are _supposed_ to keep corporate citizens good citizens.

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