Fingerprint Systems at the tanning salon?
December 5, 2006
At a recent visit to Palm Beach Tanning Salons (I occasionally suffer from SAD), I discovered that they now require a fingerprint ID in order to list you as a current member. I am not particularly comfortable with so much information about me sitting in the database of a tanning salon.
Information Week reports that the government of course is going to be purchasing more and more of these systems. As a non-citizen of the United States, I have had to give up a lot of privacy due to security concerns and that is understandable. Do private businesses get to have this data too?
Technorati tags: Privacy, personal data
December 19, 2006 at 4:00 pm
You’re here, too?! I like this, as I do all of your blogging… whether it’s here or there.
And I just learned something else new about you–a “non-citizen”? How mysterious.
December 27, 2006 at 3:58 pm
Tanning salons need my fingerprints!?!?
No way.
January 11, 2007 at 5:46 am
They just want to make sure you don’t overtan!