Dutch pot shops to fingerprint customers
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Coffee shops licensed to sell marijuana in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht will begin fingerprinting customers and scanning their IDs this summer to help prove they're following rules governing such sales.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - There's a whiff of crisis in the air at the Dutch Health Ministry: It's sitting on a pile of pot that it just can't sell.    The Netherlands rolled out a program last year that allows patients to buy prescription marijuana at any pharmacy...
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Iris, fingers, head, shoulders, knees and toes The UK, Europe and the US are planning to belt and brace their border databases by using multiple forms of biometrics to identify people.â¦
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Stamping all over Jobs' carbon footprint Greenpeace Netherlands targeted Apple shops in Amsterdam on Saturday with flyers claiming the company has made absolutely no improvements to its environmental policies or practices.â¦
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Nokia has launched a program to help consumers spot counterfeit mobile phone batteries. The company has begun labeling batteries with holographic labels containing a series of symbols and a 20-digit authentication code hidden under a scratch-off area.
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SCAGGSVILLE, Md. -- Stephanie Cerneck doesn't go through the checkout line at her supermarket anymore. Or even the self-checkout line. She uses a personal scanner offered by the Bloom grocery store near her home, scanning each item as she takes it off the shelf and bagging as she shops. When she's...
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Vending machines distributing marijuana are to begin operating in California.
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Visitors could face digital fingerprinting at airports under plans to beef up border security
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By Betty Lin-Fisher, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Feb. 11--The next time you order flowers, make sure you know exactly with whom you're dealing before completing the transaction.
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Dutch-based insurer says NY attorney general probing fees paid to brokers for new business. AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands  - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has asked Dutch financial services
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EINDHOVEN, Netherlands  - A Dutch company has  squeezed a display the size of two business cards into a gadget  no bigger than other mobile phones -- by making a screen that  folds up when not in use.
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EAGAN, Minn.  -- Several Minnesota police departments are field testing a handheld device that scans a suspect's fingerprint and digitally checks it against Minnesota's criminal history and fingerprint database...
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Irish holidaymakers travelling to the US will be fingerprinted and photographed starting tomorrow.
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Police start taking fingerprints using mobile electronic devices to identify suspects while out on patrol.
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X marks the pest A Dutch spammer who used compromised PCs to spamvertise web sites has been fined â¬75,000 ($97,000) by Opta, the Netherlands telecoms regulatorâ¦
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You're in the back of a taxi cab or walking down the street when you catch sight of a green-leather passport. Maybe you're a good citizen. Maybe you're in it for the cash reward. Either way, New York shop Cossette Post is betting you'll open it and find yourself looking at an ad for Carlsberg beer.
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Would-be immigrants into the Netherlands are to face an exam testing their knowledge of everything from Dutch language and history to its laws on topless sunbathing before they can take up residence.