Castle Hill Pub Mean Fiddler
Castle Hill Pubs
Castle Hill Pub Mean Fiddler will complete a six-week trial of identification scanners on the weekend and may introduce them as part of standard policy.
General manager Chris Byrne said the machines work by taking a photo of each patron and matching it to a scanned copy of each patron’s driver’s licence.
The information is then stored according to privacy legislation and, if needed, provided to police.
The process takes four seconds.
“If we’re happy with it, which we are, we will purchase the system and it will become part of our standard process.
“It will make our premises a much safer place,” Mr Byrne said.
“By using the scanners, we have people’s details, so we can find out who someone is if they are doing the wrong thing.
“We have between 7000 and 8000 people going through here each weekend and only one in 8000 does the wrong thing. We’d like to see that reduced to zero.”
The scanners have been used for patrons who enter the nightclub after 9pm on Friday and Saturday nights, but not during the day.
Mr Byrne said there had been a reduction in alcohol-related incidents during the trial.
Sorry Mr Byrne, but there is a big difference between scanning a drivers license at the door versus showing it to a bouncer. Most Bouncers I have seen do not have photographic memories, but your scanners do. You can’t tell me that the information scanned into these computers will not be used to build up your database so that you can market to these unsuspecting patrons. Have you sought their consent to retain this data, will you on sell it to marketing companies? Unless you get written consent from each patron then you are in breach of the privacy act.