At 4:15 PM 8/29/95, Mark wrote:
What possible value could the LEAs get by having your thumbprint digitally encoded on your driver's license? It's not like the average cop-on-the-beat is qualified to lift a fingerprint and compare it. Even if he was, how does it benefit that the fingerprint is on the license?
Here it is possible to walk into a suitably equipped police station, put your fingertips on a sensor pad and a few seconds, if records exist, have the appear on the computer screen. Extrapolating this it isnt a big step for a patrol car, already equipped with a packet radio link to HQ and a data terminal, scan in your fingerprint and check it. If the system was offline they could easily take your rpint and compare it to that on your license. It's just a little more proof that the license is linked to you.
My only question though is why help them create more records about the average citizen? Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ..Jonathan Zamick Consensus Development Corporation.. ..<JonathanZ@consensus.com> 1563 Solano Ave, #355.. .. Berkeley, CA 94707-2116.. .. o510/559-1500 f510/559-1505.. ..Mosaic/WWW Home Page: .. .. Consensus Home Page ..