Recent reports have raised alarm about the use of PatronScan, an ID-checking and face-scanning system, at multiple LGBTQ+ bars in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood. Much of the attention has focused on reports that the system photographs patrons as they enter venues and questions about whether those images are used for facial recognition
I can back this up my parents owned bars and restaurants and the insurance companies and local police would constantly push that we had scanners.
We knew as soon as it got around that we were scanning ID our bars would tank. The irony was the people that push for them would be the first customers we would lose. We were known as a cop friendly bar, and all the local government people would frequent too. No way they would want to be seen as a regular in a database.
We also had no camera’s in the bar/restaurant area for the same reason. My old man was big on privacy…
It’s very much people wanting to have their cake and eat it to. People want trouble makers to see justice, but we also don’t want to live in a society ruled by violence.
What most Gen-Z and younger folk don’t know is that before cameras were everywhere, trouble makers were taught violently who would not tolerate their trouble makery.
But now trouble makers only answer to the cameras that can prove them guilty in a court of law. Hence why alcohol venues are logging ID’s. Because insurance companies are tired of paying out lawsuits, and government regulators are tired of alcohol venues getting people drunk and causing problems.
I agree 100% with this statement. The person doesn’t necessarily need to be beat up but there aren’t any real social consequences to being an asshole anymore. No one doing anti-social but not actually illegal things are dealt with.