Fingerprinting at UK airports?
Discussion
Deva Link said:
Slaav said:
If I travel 12 times (I live in Glos) I assume they may get all my fingerprints?
If you've got 12 fingers then I don't think there would be much trouble identifying you anyway!
Einion Yrth said:
Deva Link said:
Slaav said:
If I travel 12 times (I live in Glos) I assume they may get all my fingerprints?
If you've got 12 fingers then I don't think there would be much trouble identifying you anyway!Imigrant to Gloucestershire from Yorkshire
Starfighter said:
I would think the issue is less of a problem in Gloucester than in the Forest where they had to change the law so divorsees can still be brother and sister.
Imigrant to Gloucestershire from Yorkshire
In the Forest, isn't it compulsory for Divorcees to be brother and sister?Imigrant to Gloucestershire from Yorkshire
(at least you got my joke
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Art0ir said:
Bohally said:
An airport is a public place though. If the finger printing helps crack down on drug smugglers or some towel head who's intent on blowing us up then I don't see the issue.
"Those who would sacrifice a little liberty for a little safety deserve neither"fbrs said:
very good but what liberty am i sacrificing by being finger printed? it just confirms i am who the passport says i am. how is it any different to there being a photo in the passport?
Exactly,I bet half the people moaning about it have the "chip" in their passport that tracks them anyway.
Bohally said:
If you've got nothing to hide I don't see the problem...
Aww, bless..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_McKie
Wiki said:
Shirley McKie is a former Scottish police detective who was accused by fingerprint analysis staff of the Scottish Criminal Record Office (SCRO) of leaving her thumb print on the bathroom door frame of a murder crime-scene in Kilmarnock on 14 January 1997. [1][2] She denied she had ever been in the house of murder victim Marion Ross, but Detective Constable McKie was initially suspended, then sacked, then arrested by Strathclyde Police in 1998, and tried and acquitted in 1999.
fbrs said:
Art0ir said:
Bohally said:
An airport is a public place though. If the finger printing helps crack down on drug smugglers or some towel head who's intent on blowing us up then I don't see the issue.
"Those who would sacrifice a little liberty for a little safety deserve neither"
Bohally said:
If you've got nothing to hide I don't see the problem...
Really?Are you 100% sure you have absolutely nothing to hide?
Nothing?
No skeletons in your closet at all?
Have you never done 31 in a 30?
Really?
Because if you have, then you're admitting you're quite happy to be tracked down and prosecuted. After all, as you say, you have nothing to hide.
AndrewW-G said:
A b
disation of the Joseph Goebbels quotation "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"
Defending the erosion of privacy and civil liberties, by quoting a NAZI who was responsible for the death of millions of innocent people, is a tad telling.
Your deliberate misattribution is much, much more telling, frankly.disation of the Joseph Goebbels quotation "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" Defending the erosion of privacy and civil liberties, by quoting a NAZI who was responsible for the death of millions of innocent people, is a tad telling.
Oakey said:
Bohally said:
If you've got nothing to hide I don't see the problem...
Aww, bless..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_McKie
Wiki said:
Shirley McKie is a former Scottish police detective who was accused by fingerprint analysis staff of the Scottish Criminal Record Office (SCRO) of leaving her thumb print on the bathroom door frame of a murder crime-scene in Kilmarnock on 14 January 1997. [1][2] She denied she had ever been in the house of murder victim Marion Ross, but Detective Constable McKie was initially suspended, then sacked, then arrested by Strathclyde Police in 1998, and tried and acquitted in 1999.
Really? You aren't somewhat concerned how her fingerprint came to be at the scene of a murder in a house she'd never been in? And you can't see how the authoritites having everyones fingerprints regardless of whether they are criminals or not might be a problem given the above?
ETA: It's worth noting that despite her being aquitted, they refused to admit they'd made a mistake until 2011 when they finally apologised;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west...
ETA: It's worth noting that despite her being aquitted, they refused to admit they'd made a mistake until 2011 when they finally apologised;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west...
Edited by Oakey on Friday 6th July 10:08
A pub is a public place as well. I take it you have no objections to being fingerprinted going in there too?
It's a slippery slope - I guess that's the point I'm trying to make.
I'd rather live in a slightly less secure world (you're more likely to be struck by lightning that blown up) than a totalistic surveillance society.
It's a slippery slope - I guess that's the point I'm trying to make.
I'd rather live in a slightly less secure world (you're more likely to be struck by lightning that blown up) than a totalistic surveillance society.
Bohally said:
An airport is a public place though. If the finger printing helps crack down on drug smugglers or some towel head who's intent on blowing us up then I don't see the issue.
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