Observations: A pain in the ear - Observations on teenagers / New Statesman, 7 Aug 2006

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Brendan O'Neill
"If you want to see the future of youth policing in Blair's Britain, look no further than the West Country, the region that has become a sinister laboratory for testing Orwellian ways of keeping teens off the streets. Back in April, we learned that the superpubs and clubs of Yeovil, in Somerset, had started finger-scanning their youthful patrons. Biometric scanners were installed at various watering holes, and revellers now have to provide a mugshot and a finger-scan so that their details can be stored on a computer. If they get into trouble, a black mark is put against their name, which means . . . " [Sub Required]