Fans of Hungarian soccer team Ferencvaros have come “en masse to their home stadium in Budapest” to protest the club’s new biometric ID equipment, which controls turnstile entry to the stadium, according to Biometric Update. Fans were heard to chant “Down with the scanner!”
The Fradi stadium has recently been equipped by palm vein scanners, which identify individual supporters based on five million palm vein data points, taking about a second. The Star Onlinereports that the club spent $61 million on the scanners, which it says “only holds a multiple encrypted hashcode of the vein structure of two palms of each fan and an identification number, separately stored from other personal data to prevent any misuse.”
Hungarian soccer fans protest against stadium's new biometric security
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