Fingerprinting at UK airports?

[Tafia]

Not sure if this is the correct forum for this query.

Does any one know if this fingerprinting at airports is still going on even for those on domestic flights?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1580993/Hea...


If it is then if I board a plane at Manchester direct to Nice it seems I won't be fingerprinted but if I have to fly to Heathrow or Gatwick to connect with a flight to Nice as I would if I flew British Airways, then I would be fingerprinted.

They say the prints would be destroyed after 24 hours and are not passed to police but how do we know that is true?

I recall some time ago reading that kids prints were collected at a school in order " to check what books they were reading at the library" or "to check what meals they were eating at the canteen"

There was a big fuss at the time as folks saw this as yet another method by which the state could have all of us fingerprinted.

Anyone heard or experienced anything on this?

Thanks

[Tafia]

Bit naive to use the old: "if you've nothing to hide" defence.

It's not about that, is it?

Anyone had their prints taken at a UK airport?

[Tafia]

I guess we all have stuff we don't want others to see. Medical records, amount of savings held, income, political stuff etc. etc.

[Tafia]

Thanks folks,

So it seems we are not fingerprinted at UK airports. Anyone know what happened to the proposals to do so as per the link in my original post?

Cheers

T

[Tafia]

I guess the next step could be to microchip us all at birth.

Those given powers over us will always abuse it.

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PoleDriver said:

For the last few years I have been flying, on average, twice a month. The only time I've ever had fingerprints taken when going into USA. Even then it was done electronically, so no inky fingers involved.
Pointless thread is pointless!

Not pointless at all. It was a legitimate question given the widely reported intention to fingerprint us all at UK airports.

Seems it has not yet come to pass though I haven't seen any official retraction of the plan

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Piersman2 said:

Is '1984', the George Orwell book, on the school syllabus anymore?

I re-read it a few years back and it seems more apt to day than it ever did 25 years ago when I first read it.

If you've not read it, I urge you to. It's not a long book although I'm afraid it has no pictures for the youngeters to help keep their attention.

I read it when New Labour were at their peak and trying to roll out ID cards, it's almost like a blueprint of what Labour were trying to achieve.

I thought the same thing at the time.

And Mr Orwell's name was Blair too. Spooky?

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XCP said:

What do you think your passport is for?

But does that track us or simply reveal to which airport we are going? Once we leave the airport.................freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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XCP said:

very similar to giving a fingerprint then. How does that track anyone?

Not sure we were talking of tracking sir. My question "was it going on" was based on reports that it was to be introduced. Hidden in my question was a query as to why it was needed when they already have a passport with a photograph and also, were the prints compared to the police national computer.

Does that hold detail crimes committed decades ago.

A now-model citizen might be linked to an unsolved minor crime committed when she was a callow youthess, an age group which do stupid things. An example of that: my cousin and I did drive like idiots when in our late teens. Luckily we had no accidents. Phew. Looking back, we should have been whipped.

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PoleDriver said:

It was pointless from the point of view of the question asked in the OP:-

"Does any one know if this fingerprinting at airports is still going on even for those on domestic flights?"

It couldn't be going on because it never started!

However, it does seem to have lead to an interesting discussion, so I retract my original statement on those grounds!

Kool.

I have only seen reports that it was to be carried out, none that said a change of mind had occurred. Wonder why they changed their
minds?