Re: Florida Drivers Permits and a Hello
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?
This seems silly.
There are device that will electronicly read fingerprints available now. So with such a device, the LEO would know instantly if you were who you said that you were.
And somebody, Science Applications International Corp. I think, is designing an in-car fingerprint reader / database query-er for cops. So they can check your bona fides on the road sides. bd On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Dave 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?
This seems silly.
There are device that will electronicly read fingerprints available now. So with such a device, the LEO would know instantly if you were who you said that you were.
On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Brad Dolan wrote:
And somebody, Science Applications International Corp. I think, is designing an in-car fingerprint reader / database query-er for cops. So they can check your bona fides on the road sides.
bd
It's too bad for law enforcement that the Chadian driver's license I use doesn't have any fingerpints on it and was obtained without requiring the surrender of any "finger images." DCF "Yes Virginia, heroic Chad fighters equipped with French shoulder-launched missles and Toyota Pickups did, in fact, defeat an Libyan armored invasion force."
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And somebody, Science Applications International Corp. I think, is designing an in-car fingerprint reader / database query-er for cops. So they can check your bona fides on the road sides.
The company I know definitely is on this is Digital Biometrics, Inc, located in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Their device is called a SQUID (and no, I don't know what the acronym stands for). About 8" long and roughly 2.5" squarish, it has a lens in front where the subject's thumb is placed, and scans the lens with a laser. It's not quite in production yet, although prototypes are under construction. I happen to work for the company doing the machining work. - -- Roy M. Silvernail [ ] roy@cybrspc.mn.org PGP Public Key fingerprint = 31 86 EC B9 DB 76 A7 54 13 0B 6A 6B CC 09 18 B6 Key available from pubkey@cybrspc.mn.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQCVAwUBMEOdVhvikii9febJAQEu+QQAlDHh+rt+iyJ3Yi41B1InvtECalLA2spR Kl15Z/Fr2/WciRX7/VjHb2WQYxJ98psZlL37QeAWYDZ/PmfaCaknGd6rTgSyl3Vl itMSdfxB6eMpEAcJUQMPzB083i2MXDqdzAMBjWaw6FrYBKJ9+Rx12SZXz7UAFEz9 8nU5IBZ0Im0= =B9lj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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