I fear that seeing how people "love the fingerprint readers on their phones" the governments will think - well then, they will probably love having to use their

I fear that seeing how people "love the fingerprint readers on their phones" the governments will think - well then, they will probably love having to use their fingerprint for federal services, too - by giving us the fingerprint to store (which means the government will also be able to use that fingerprint to log into all the devices and services for which you'll be using that fingerprint). Today's data breach at the very least shows that we shouldn't allow them to push for that. The fingerprint should always stay on our devices in a hardware secure module.