Liquor stores check the age of client with webcam

About sixty liquor stores have the hardware in their shops placed from now on via a webcam, the age of a customer to check. Through so-called Ageviewers of the company to HIM within three seconds whether or not given the green light.

With the purchase of alcoholic beverages, a minimum age of 16 or 18 years. A customer should be for a webcam, in which the images to a central monitoring system in Breda are sent. There is a ‘verificatiemedewerker’ within a few seconds determine whether or not the person is not legally of age and alcoholic beverages may buy. When in doubt about the age is asked for an identification on the terminal. Only when the Ageviewer a authorisatiesignaal issues, the liquor merchant, the transaction using its cash register to complete.

According to the manufacturer, the company HIM from Breda, is the privacy of the customer is guaranteed. There would be no images are stored, while the images of the Ageviewers via a secure network would be sent. A client can also choose to not contribute to the age verification, but he may not drink alcoholic products to carry because a transaction is impossible.

The Ageviewer must be a balanced leeftijdscontrolesysteem be, so say the promoters, including liquor stores, HIM and a number of projects that alcohol use among minors to reduce. The system will be at about sixty liquor stores to be installed.

The legal liability with regard to the accuracy of age verification is in the implementation of the Ageviewer in a liquor store in the company of HIM to lie, and so is no longer with the retailer. The Ageviewer system of HIM was in 2008 during a six-month trial at C1000 supermarkets for the first time tested.