TL;DR
ID scanning is becoming a more common requirement to access bars and clubs in Australia (and worldwide). A company called ScanTek is used in over 1,000 clubs in Aus and provides tools such as biometric-matching someone’s face to an ID, detecting fake IDs, flagging people and sharing data with other venues automatically
As well as verifying ages, ScanTek boasts “collect marketing information from IDs and drivers licences, which business owners can use to target specific demographics with promotions” on its website in a pitch to business owners. Though they claim to not share any of this with third parties
Australia’s privacy laws are vague, don’t specify what can be collected and how it must be stored, and only say that companies shouldn’t keep data for longer than is “reasonable”
How is the most dystopian nanny state news always coming out from Australia first, and then the rest of the world rushes to copy them?
small island, basically brainwashed to be bootlicking liberals. taught from our past we are bore from criminals to allow the people to imagine themselves as free, while our politics are only a few years behind the fascist rhetoric of the USA.
this gives Australia the perfect environment to perform little ‘tests’ on the population to see how a white liberal audience will react.