Submitted by IWB, on February 13th, 2016
In Caracas or Maracaibo’ supermarkets and drugstores, buying a kilogram of grain or a pack of cookies has become a complex procedure: it’s required for you to deliver an ID, full name, phone number, address, date of birth and to slide both thumbs in a device: the emblematic “fingerprint scanner”; a device which usage by stores was originally voluntary, but which evolution, months afterwards, is one of omnipresent machinery, kind of a necessary toll for the acquisition of a simple pack of gum in any chain store.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160104/09480933242/fingerprints-food-venezuela-shows-how-not-to-use-biometrics.shtml
In Caracas or Maracaibo’ supermarkets and drugstores, buying a kilogram of grain or a pack of cookies has become a complex procedure: it’s required for you to deliver an ID, full name, phone number, address, date of birth and to slide both thumbs in a device: the emblematic “fingerprint scanner”; a device which usage by stores was originally voluntary, but which evolution, months afterwards, is one of omnipresent machinery, kind of a necessary toll for the acquisition of a simple pack of gum in any chain store.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160104/09480933242/fingerprints-food-venezuela-shows-how-not-to-use-biometrics.shtml
Venezuela installs finger scanners in supermarkets – BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-31791878
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