[michaelje]

No, not exactly. Fingerprints dont provide you with an individuals genetic make up.

You have a tremendous amount of faith in the government.

[stuartcr]

With your DNA, the govt could clone you and commit crimes with your clone, or use your clone as a political assassin. After that, they get rid of your clone, and you are guilty, or, at the least, easily blackmailed into even more criminal acts.

[Puddleglum]

No, not exactly. Fingerprints dont provide you with an individuals genetic make up.

This is very frightening. Big gov needn't have absolute knowledge because it is too prone to abuse and misuse. In a government where some are already more equal than others, we don't need to give them more quasi-scientific differentiators to label us with or manipulate us by.

[kesg]

No, not exactly. Fingerprints dont provide you with an individuals genetic make up.

You have a tremendous amount of faith in the government.

Even if true, I couldn't care less whether the government has this information. It doesn't adversely affect any of the many freedoms that I enjoy in this country. To the contrary, it enhances my freedom to the extent that the government can use this information to catch criminals that they otherwise couldn't catch.