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Originally Posted by kermey
Why should i care if they have my fingerprints as i dont break the law knowingly so have nought to fear.
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Ah the trust in the authorities as evidenced by this comment and others.
So I will pick one case as it is big in the UK at the moment
"Scotland appointed three experts to examine the way fingerprints are collected and used in court after a case of mistaken identity involving a local policewoman raised questions worldwide over the practice.
Shirley McKie was awarded 750,000 pounds ($1.3 million) in compensation last February, seven years after being acquitted of perjury when fingerprint evidence allegedly connecting her to a murder scene was discredited in court."
Fingerprint analysis is not an exact science but a matter of interpretation. Experts can disagree on whether prints are a match or not and standards for matching prints varies from country to country.
The case above involved an innocent woman with her prints in a database being wrongly accused. The experts involved still refuse to accept that they were wrong and it also begs the question how many other people are, and have been, wrongly accused but their case ignored.
The collation of information by Govt's is an age old desire as evidenced by the doomsday book in 1085 in England. Its purpose was to calculate how much tax people should pay and to make sure everyone paid. People feared such intrusion then and we too should be equally suspicious whenever ideas proposing collation of info on the population is proposed.