GameStop Now Fingerprinting People Trading in Games
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Some GameStop stores in Philadelphia are now requiring that people who trade in games provide a fingerprint scan for "certain transactions," CBS Philadelphia reports today based on conversations with the retailer, local government, police, and shoppers.
According to GameStop, it is following a local law that says the retailer is allowed to collect thumbprints. These scans eventually make their way into a database that helps law enforcement nab thieves who seek to use GameStop as a ? shop of sorts to unload their goods.
Philadelphia city solicitor Shelley Smith says that GameStop is not required to collect the thumbprints to abide by the city's pawnbroker order. "What GameStop does doesn't meet any of the elements of the definition in the code, so the pawnbreaker ordinance doesn't apply to GameStop," she said.
The Philadelphia Police Department, on the other hand, tells CBS Philadelphia that GameStop is being proactive by obtaining customer fingerprints and uploading them to a database known as LeadsOnline.
Still, GameStop shoppers outside of a store in Philadelphia's Center City district are not too pleased about the new policy. "I really don't appreciate it," one person said. "You fingerprinted me like I'm in a police district. No, I'm at a game store." Another shopper said, "I think it's an overreach. It's going too far."
GameStop's fingerprinting initiative is currently only underway in Philadelphia itself, but not the suburbs. We have reached out to GameStop for further clarification about this new policy for Philadelphia and will update this story with anything we hear back.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/gamestop-now-fingerprinting-people-trading-in-game/1100-6421436/
According to GameStop, it is following a local law that says the retailer is allowed to collect thumbprints. These scans eventually make their way into a database that helps law enforcement nab thieves who seek to use GameStop as a ? shop of sorts to unload their goods.
Philadelphia city solicitor Shelley Smith says that GameStop is not required to collect the thumbprints to abide by the city's pawnbroker order. "What GameStop does doesn't meet any of the elements of the definition in the code, so the pawnbreaker ordinance doesn't apply to GameStop," she said.
The Philadelphia Police Department, on the other hand, tells CBS Philadelphia that GameStop is being proactive by obtaining customer fingerprints and uploading them to a database known as LeadsOnline.
Still, GameStop shoppers outside of a store in Philadelphia's Center City district are not too pleased about the new policy. "I really don't appreciate it," one person said. "You fingerprinted me like I'm in a police district. No, I'm at a game store." Another shopper said, "I think it's an overreach. It's going too far."
GameStop's fingerprinting initiative is currently only underway in Philadelphia itself, but not the suburbs. We have reached out to GameStop for further clarification about this new policy for Philadelphia and will update this story with anything we hear back.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/gamestop-now-fingerprinting-people-trading-in-game/1100-6421436/
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Would you allow yourself to be fingerprinted to trade in some games or would you shop some place else?
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id take my trades somewhere else. they cant do that ?
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Gamestop giving you like $7 a game, then flip it and sell the same game for $40, but THEY are the ones fingerprinting people? Hilarious.
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Nah b, nah.
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Lol when i was walking in the mall some chick who looked like a heroin junkie walks up asking me to ? some games in game stop. Did it for her and she gave me 40 bucks. they were all brand new games, had to be stolen from somewhere. There was like 10 of them too. Only got about 100 bucks total.
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Be better off selling them to amazon.
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Lou Cypher wrote: »Lol when i was walking in the mall some chick who looked like a heroin junkie walks up asking me to ? some games in game stop. Did it for her and she gave me 40 bucks. they were all brand new games, had to be stolen from somewhere. There was like 10 of them too. Only got about 100 bucks total.
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Smh at game stop with these illuminati antics.
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Heard them ? is launching a credit card too
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asinine...
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Bruh. GameStop robbing then planting yo ass with the case.
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The didn't need to do this
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I just realized that I havent bought a game from gamestop in years, once I got on cheap ass gamer and amazon and ? GS became irrelevant
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I still go to GameStop. U can get a preowned game there and keep it for two weeks and return it for a full refund. So I do that. And if I don't beat the game I'll return it then buy it again then return it again after I beat it