Most people hand their ID to a bouncer without thinking twice. But what if your local bar was monitoring way more than your age?SUPPORT MY WORK: Buy a paid subscription to my newsletter at usermag.co Support my work on Patreon: http://patreon.com/taylorlorenz Cydney Hayes is a tech and business reporter at the Gazetteer SF.and she joins me for this week's Free Speech Friday to discuss her investigation into Patronscan, a creepy biometric surveillance system being integrated into bars and restaurants across the country. We examine how these systems collect personal information, photograph and surveil patrons as they move from bar to bar, build databases, and raise serious questions about privacy, biometric tracking, facial recognition, and data collection.We discuss:How PatronScan worksWhy bars are adopting these systemsWhat information is collectedPrivacy concerns surrounding biometric dataFacial recognition and surveillance technologyHow customer databases are createdThe legal controversies surrounding PatronScanWhy surveillance is expanding into everyday spacesWhat this means for the future of privacyAs surveillance technology spreads from airports and retail stores into restaurants, bars, and nightlife, it's becoming increasingly important to understand how these systems operate and what tradeoffs they create.

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