FEOS wrote:
KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
FEOS wrote:
We fingerprint ordinary people here, too. So do other countries. What's the big deal?
No we don't. Haven't seen any fingerprint checkpoints here lately, what about you?
Let's see...marine already covered military. Then there's:
Anything requiring a background check:
- Schools
- Passports
- Jobs (varies)
Was there any mention in the article about "fingerprint checkpoints"? Must've missed that one.
Regardless, we don't have any other kind of checkpoints here except for the occasional DUI checkpoint...but our security situation is a bit different in the States than it is in Iraq, I'd wager.
No, the article is vague, and I jumped to the conclusion that they were just randomly fingerprinting people from the way the article was written.
I have no problem with people willingly giving up their personal data.
I tend to agree with this:
"The day when the federal government can tell people the basis they've been put on the watch list is the day we can have more confidence in biometric identification," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
I don't really agree with this:
For example, a roadside bomb may explode and a patrol may fingerprint bystanders because insurgents have been known to remain at the scene to observe the results of their work. Prints also can be lifted off tiny fragments of exploded bombs, said military officials and contractors involved in the work.
And I think things like this should be expanded nationwide and implemented in more cases:
Since September 2006, Homeland Security and the FBI have been operating a pilot program in which police officers in Boston, Dallas and Houston run prints of arrestees against a Homeland Security database of immigration law violators and a State Department database of people refused visas. Federal job applicants' prints also are run against the databases. To date, some 500 people have been found in the database and thus are of interest to Homeland Security officials.
I don't agree with forced fingerprinting without reason. Hope that clarifies.