<p><a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/02/04/fbi.biometrics/index.html[/url]”>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/02/04/fbi.biometrics/index.html</a></p>
<p>Next thing you know, they’ll be taking the fingrprints of every person charged with a crime and put it into a database to use to solve future crimes.</p>
<p>Oh wait, they already do that! :)</p>
<p>You know, unlike on CSI, sometimes the only evidence we have are pictures or video evidence. If having a database that identifies someone who breaks ino an ATM by their distinctive tatoo instead of by thier fingerprints (say they wore gloves) helps get this criminal off the streets, I don’t see the difference then having a fingerprint database.</p>
<p>I don’t have a problem with people who are charged with a crime being in a database. It’s the idea of everyone being on one that I don’t like. (admittedly I did not read the whole article as it was a bit boring - so maybe I misunderstood it).</p>
<p>Though come to think of it I am probably on a database somewhere as I had my fingerprints taken to get my green card. Plus my photo on it had to be with my hair behind my right (I think it was right) ear and with my ear showing. So I guess they have been doing something like that for at least 20 years. I wonder how distinctive ears are.?</p>
<p>By the way if you ever have to have your fingerprints taken in a police station in Egypt take some wipes. Having the fingerprint ink washed off my hands with gasoline while someone nearby was smoking a cigarette was not one of my warmest memories - though it easily could have been.</p>