{"id":3693,"date":"2011-11-08T12:19:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T12:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2011-11-08T12:19:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T12:19:26","slug":"cardiff-clubs-to-fingerprint-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/11\/08\/cardiff-clubs-to-fingerprint-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff clubbers face fingerprinting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Clubs encouraged to introduce digital technology for customer entry<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_3764\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/ladybird-lounge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3764\" title=\"ladybird lounge\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/ladybird-lounge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/ladybird-lounge.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/ladybird-lounge-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3764\" title=\"ladybird lounge\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/ladybird-lounge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/ladybird-lounge.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/ladybird-lounge-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New nightspot Ladybird Lounge on Mill Lane had reported success with the system<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Police are backing the use of digital technology for entry into the city\u2019s clubs to help catch wrongdoers.<\/p>\n<p>Customers hoping to gain entry to nightspots must agree to having their driving licence or passport scanned, or choose to have their fingerprint scanned to save producing ID in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Licensees were given a demonstration on how the system worked last Wednesday, with another due to take place at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>This means more clubs could join the likes of Ladybird Lounge in Mill Lane, who already adopt the system.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of Cardiff Licensees Forum, Nick Newman, maintains that the system is an entirely commercial decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cID scanning is a bit of a grey area and clubs are not obliged to go along with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clubs encouraged to introduce digital technology for customer entry Police are backing the use of digital technology for entry into the city\u2019s clubs to help catch wrongdoers. Customers hoping to gain entry to nightspots must agree to having their driving licence or passport scanned, or choose to have their fingerprint scanned to save producing ID in the future. Licensees were given a demonstration on how the system worked last Wednesday, with another due to take place at the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":3913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[899,900,901,902,903,164,904],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-logo","tag-clubs","tag-entry","tag-fingerprint","tag-id","tag-nightclubs","tag-police","tag-scanning"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cardiff clubbers face fingerprinting - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/11\/08\/cardiff-clubs-to-fingerprint-customers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cardiff clubbers face fingerprinting - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Clubs encouraged to introduce digital technology for customer entry Police are backing the use of digital technology for entry into the city\u2019s clubs to help catch wrongdoers. 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