Fifteen nightclubs in the Netherlands are now testing a system of face scanners, fingerprint scanners and smartcards that will be used to identify and possibly turn away certain patrons. The system targets not rap stars and their bodacious girlfriends, but repeated troublemakers.. . .
Fifteen nightclubs in the Netherlands are now testing a system of face scanners, fingerprint scanners and smartcards that will be used to identify and possibly turn away certain patrons. The system targets not rap stars and their bodacious girlfriends, but repeated troublemakers.

"The club scene in the Netherlands is not really like America's," said Elizabeth Marshall of Keyware Technologies, which makes the fingerprint and face scanners for the system. "They're open till 11 a.m., and they have a lot of trouble with hooligans who just want to start fights."

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