[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

And remember, if you're doing nothing wrong, what is there to worry about? /s

[jwh_Denver]

"How Creepy Can It Get?"

They're just getting started.

[cardinal4]

Fingerprinting during traffic stops? Why dont we give DNA samples as well??

[Pearls Before Swine]

Maybe real American citizens will soon be able to enjoy the benefits of "catch and release" justice and 3 out 5 tax year payments. Nahhhhh, this sort of data collection will only put legal citizens more under the government thumb. Might as well police the law-abiding. Its easier.

[sheik yerbouty]

to quote Bob grant: "The forecast is sick and getting sicker!"

[KoRn]

I wouldn't give them my finger print, no matter what. I'd drive away first. I used to have great respect for law enforcement, like I have for the military. Now, after being an adult who drives everywhere they are nothing more than a menace, a tax collector on wheels all in the name of public safety.

[Lokibob]

"radio frequency" ID transmitters into driver's licenses that would make it possible for anyone with the right scanner to download all your pertinent (and even not-so-pertinent) information"

 

Wrong.  A RFID only identifies the person or the product (probably by number).  You then need to go to the database to pull up that persons records.

 

All of this is bad enough, but the RFID is not a data storage item, it is only an ID system.

 

No flames, please, I'm not in favor of RFIDS.

[pabianice]

So what? Lawful gun owners in Massachusetts have to register with the state Criminal Records Bureau and cannot move without letting the state and local police know where they have moved to. You see, if you own a gun, you are automatically a criminal. Perhaps if enough people get fed-up with this crap things will change.

[xrp]

microscopic "radio frequency" ID transmitters into driver's licenses

THe information on how to disrupt or destroy these will hit the Internet before the government can say "Big Brother".

[Citizen Tom Paine]

For all you inhabitants of this brave new world out there - about 25 years three DEC mainframes running in a cluster could sort 250 million records in less that one second. This meant (among other things) that every man woman and child living in the US could be tracked by anyone with the desire. It also meant that financial transactions on a world wide basis could be tracked, if desired.

One wonders what is out there now with artificial intelligence and data base programs. As an aside, I also understood that the major commercial data bases could easily sort through 250 million records.

[fish hawk]

You mean you haven't got the 666 chip in your hand or forehead yet?

[observer5]

Sure this will be linked to the PATRIOT CRAPED system.

Great!

[Trajan88]

guilty until proven innocent... now, off to my state-mandated housing unit.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Senate's "No Illegal Alien Left Behind" bill (as Jeff Sessions called it) probably makes it illegal for the cops to do this to anyone who might be an illegal alien. So only those in the US lawfully, such as actual US citizens, will be affected.

[MarkL]

I'm all for it! As someone who lives in MO but works in KS, I have to deal with the KS drivers every morning and evening! Most of them shouldn't be on the road at all!

Mark

[weegee]

In Texas all drivers are fingerprinted when they renew their licenses (not a full set of prints but they do grab one from each hand).

[weegee]

..and this has been the policy since before 2001.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

all of it funded by a $3.6 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security

Thank you El Presidente Jorge.

[El Gato]

Oh heck, I'm in the federal fingerprint database. Since at least 1971. I've been fingereprinted at least a half a dozen times, probaby more like 10. The last time was when I got my CHL, which means I'm in the Texas DPS database as well as probably sereral federal ones. But those are all in the DoD. I was first fingerprinted when joining ROTC, then for a security clearance from the USAF. Then mulitiple times for clearances of various sorts both as contractor and military reservist.

It's no biggie. No different, in principal, from having your picture taken for your driver's license (or that CHL).

[SALChamps03]

(Georgia, Colorado, Hawaii, Texas) routinely fingerprint motorists as well -- with digitized/electronic systems coming on line.

Georgia no longer does this. Legislation was passed ending this practice, and ordering all fingerprints that were collected to be destroyed.