Amsterdam Kaffee-Geschäft Kunden Gesicht biometrische Prüfung

Durch Sabine Fiedler

Kaufender Hanf in der holländischen Stadt von Maastricht bedeutet bald Lassen Ihrer Fingerabdrücke nehmen, Ihres Gesichtes abgelichtet und Ihrer biometrischen Daten genotiert werden.

Alle 15 Kaffeegeschäfte in der südlichen Stadt sind Ausgabe ungefähr 100.000 Euro (67.000 zerstößt), ein Sicherheit System anbringend, das Marken es stark für einen Unteralter Hanfraucher zum als ein Terrorist hereinzukommen, um Fuß in Europa, entsprechend Trebern Josemans, Kopf einzustellen des lokalen Kaffeegeschäft Anschlußes.

“We are ashamed for this attack on your privacy”, reads an explanatory leaflet about the system starting in September.

The coffee shops face a continual struggle to prove they are not selling to people under the age of 18 or more than 5 grams of cannabis a day to any one individual.

If they can’t, they risk being shut down.

“If a 17-year-old comes here, shows the ID of his very similar-looking older brother and then gets caught by the police with cannabis bought in our shop, we have to prove that he broke the rules, not us,” said Josemans.

Cannabis is theoretically illegal in the Netherlands but has been tolerated in small amounts since the 1970s.

Customers in Maastricht will have their fingers and face scanned. The scans will be compared with stored data and, if everything matches, they will be able to enter the coffee shop.

No names and addresses are stored and details on the amount of cannabis bought every day will be saved only until midnight.

The information is completely secure, coffee shop owners say. But Josemans concedes 90 percent of his clients don’t like the system and he expects the new measures to hurt sales initially.

“I don’t like them registering what you buy, it’s too much Big Brother”, says Barry, 34. “But a fingerprint is okay.”

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