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FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping
2008-02-05
  • FBI expected to award $1 billion contract to help collect data on people
  • Privacy advocate says it's the first step toward a "surveillance society"
  • FBI says it's needed to help track terrorists and other criminals
  • Palm prints and optical eye scans likely to become more common
    • Posted by:Fred

    #10  IIRC, we had to provide palm prints to be accepted as foster-parents last year. Guess it's the "newest thing". Hope it does some good.
    Posted by: Old Patriot   2008-02-05 23:02  

    #9  See similar artiiikle on REDDIT POLITICS.

    Also also REDDIT article thread ON HILLARY MIGHT NOT PROTECT THE US CONSTITUTION vv other 2008 POTUS CANDIDATES.
    Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-02-05 17:00  

    #8  our local sheriff has been taking palm prints for a year or so now.Tats have been kept up with for yrs
    Posted by: sinse   2008-02-05 15:33  

    #7  Tattoo mapping is used to keep track of Who's Who in our quaint ethnic gangs.
    Posted by: ed   2008-02-05 14:58  

    #6  FBI says it's needed to help track terrorists and other criminals

    And THERE'S the catch... What other crimes? Who decides? Pedophile? Fine. Shoplifter? uh....

    I want this stuff spelled out goooooood...
    Posted by: Free Radical   2008-02-05 14:51  

    #5  Palm prints and eyes scans have been common currency in films and television shows for years. It's about time reality caught up. ;-)
    Posted by: trailing wife   2008-02-05 14:08  

    #4  Round these freaks up and shoot them. No more tolerance. The freaks and commies have gone too far.
    Posted by: Angemble Grundy7604   2008-02-05 12:01  

    #3  Tatto mapping is a very cunning move, I mean, otherwise, how could these people ever be identified in a crowd, for example?
    Posted by: anonymous5089   2008-02-05 11:28  

    #2  So when does Homeland Security set up a precrime office?
    Posted by: Excalibur   2008-02-05 10:01  

    #1  To explain the palm prints, I think that a recent court decision really rattled the FBI. The *County* judge pointed out the glaringly obvious, that although a partial fingerprint *could* indicate a particular person, that it was so inaccurate as to be below any usefulness as evidence.

    Turned out the judge knew what she was talking about, which jeopardized a bunch of criminal cases nationwide, based solely on such partial prints. Even the FBI had to admit that she was right.
    Posted by: Anonymoose   2008-02-05 08:40  

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