by Simon 45 Replies latest social current
It will only be a matter of time before innocent people aren't allowed to fly etc ... because they "have the face that fits the profile of a terrorist".
what would you do if someone blew up Buckingham Palace
Well, I guess you don't know that I'm not at all a great fan of the royals ...
One mother from London told BBC News Online she was horrified when her son came home and told her he had been finger-printed at his primary school.
My children were fingerprinted in school years ago
but I will add that it was with my permission first.
what would you do if someone blew up Buckingham Palace
Well, I guess you don't know that I'm not at all a great fan of the royals ...
But Simon ... where would all the foreign tourists go? I know it was at the top of my list when I went to London 10 years ago. If I go again, I think I would revisit it....politics aside, I still get a lump in my throat when I remember the news showing the London crowds right after 9/11 waving some American flags in sympathic solidarity of the tragedy.
How will this improve security? Really? Didn't the Sep 11 hijackers have visa's?
Actually, what frustrates me the most is that almost all of the hijackers popped up as "security threats" on the airline computers but they were still allowed to board.
There really are only two choices. One, do the whole fingerprinting and check on everyone or two, profiling. And we all know how the public reacts to profiling.
To become a resident alien I had to go to my local police station and have a full set of prints taken. My 'green card' contains an image of my right index fingerprint. It was my choice to become a resident. If you object to being fingerprinted when you enter the US then its your choice whether to visit or not.
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You know I was kind of suprised at how lax the security was when I entered England. I breezed thru customs without a glance from anyone but the snotty passport stamper guy (I think they go to an international training course to make them all snotty)...going back into the states was a different matter....took a bit longer but hey if it takes that or fingerprinting to possibly identify someone who is planning on running my plane into a building then I am willing to wait a bit and be fingerprinted..in my country or any country.
What sort of equipment are they planning on using to take the finger prints? I can't see them using the old ink and paper thing for everyone, but I work with machines that take an electronic print and found them to be unreliable. The machine that just takes a thumb print (Like in the article on the school bus) was so easy to make it that it didn't reconise the imprints, and even now we've upgraded to the full palm print its too unreliable for us to rely on to reconise a person, more than half the people would be rejected because the prints don't mtch and thats after only a week or so between readings, the more time that passes the less people it reconises.
How long before there's a news story about an airport worker being arrested for selling fingerprints?
If it's being stored electronically it'll be inevitable.
Of course then as Gadget says, the hardware/software being used would have to be up to the job as well.
