Florida Drivers Permits and a Hello
David R. Conrad
ab411 at detroit.freenet.org
Tue Aug 29 17:41:16 PDT 1995
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Scott Brickner <sjb at austin.ibm.com> writes:
>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?
One benefit to law enforcement, quite apart from the ability to verify a
license, would be the accumulation of a database of thumbprints of all
citizens, or at least all those who drive.
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