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California requires a thumb print to get a drivers license, so I'm already in the government database :(

• adamio 13y ago
  Yes this. Most of us have fingerprints in databases. Perhaps there is hypothetical risk of a digitized fingerprint leaking out and being planted to frame a crime, but I don't see how this fingerprint feature is really a true concern. Alternatively you could use this to help prove you were at a location
  • hga 13y ago
    Most? Really? I've never had to submit my fingerprints except to apply for concealed carry licenses, which is an interaction with the police-judicial complex, just one to show you're not of interest to them. I suppose enlightened California's driver's licenses is somewhat in that direction, but in other states I wonder if it's so routine.
    • adamio 13y ago
      Perhaps not most, Looking online FBI says it has 70 million known criminal prints and 34 million civil prints. There's also this which is funny, "How do you know if you're in the FBI database? According to Department of Justice rules, you have the right to submit your own fingerprints for a background check on yourself. (This allows you to contest anything that might be on your rap sheet.) Just write out a formal request and send it to the FBI, along with a full set of fingerprints and a money order for $18."
      • Raphael 13y ago
        Ha. It would be easier if they could go by your name or SSN.
        • hga 13y ago
          Normal fingerprint cards are pretty hard to procure without the person supplying them noticing, whereas allowing generally known metadata would make privacy violations much easier as well as allow a variety of errors.