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Not to mention it would be fairly trivial for a dedicated opponent to obtain fingerprints for most people, as long as they don't wear gloves everywhere.
by zevyoura 13y ago
Not to mention it would be fairly trivial for a dedicated opponent to obtain fingerprints for most people, as long as they don't wear gloves everywhere.
- nly 13y agoDusting and lifting all the prints to be found in public spaces is infeasible and the results can't be correlated with identities. The move to mobile phone scanning opens the door for more cheap, mass digital data harvesting. In effect, you're making the same argument that claims it's OK if the government track every car in the country by optical plate recognition, across a vast camera network, because "Hey! you're out in public already!" The difference in both cases is only a matter of difficulty.
- zevyoura 13y agoI'm not saying OK, I'm saying modern tech makes it trivial compared to the past.