Privacy in the marketplace
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.”[...]
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.
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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.