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VMI77 wrote:

cb1000rider wrote:

Mike.B wrote:I can't see any reasonable objection to using finger prints to positively identify someone before issuing an identity document.

By that logic, why not use DNA when the technology gets there to do it quickly? It' be more accurate than fingerprints.

Because fingerprints don't reveal anything about you but your identity. You can make the case that it isn't an invasion of your privacy since you leave prints on just about anything you touch. OTOH, DNA tells things about you that you don't even know yourself and can be used in numerous ways to injure you. Taking your DNA is clearly an invasion of privacy.

Mike.B wrote:I can't see any reasonable objection to using finger prints to positively identify someone before issuing an identity document.

VMI77 wrote:

cb1000rider wrote:I'm not worried about chips. We're pretty much all already chipped (cell phone) by our own doing. It's well established that cell phones provide location data and that cell phone providers already bend to government will. Basically: The chips are already here.

Are you being sarcastic or serious? You're willing to let the government inject a chip into your body because it's like a cell phone? I can take the battery out of my cell phone or leave it at home. And BTW, I only have a cell phone because my company issued it to me and pays for it. If I had to pay for it, I wouldn't have one.....at least not on a plan....I'd just have a burner phone that would be in my car, battery removed, in case of emergency.

Oh, as far as the DNA finger printing goes....they already made a pretty good movie about the consequences of that.

VMI77 wrote:

jmra wrote:

gemini wrote:

cb1000rider wrote:

MeMelYup wrote:I wonder if they are acceptable for CHL.

No, those cost more.

It's just another way to solve more crimes... I can already hear "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care?"
DNA would do the same thing - collect from everyone, you'd solve a lot more crime....
It's certainly headed that way.

"headed that way", and some would say the beginning of End-Times. Depending on your beliefs.

When they start inserting microchips or tattooing bar codes I'm done.

It will be voluntary at first, emphasizing convenience, and may not go mandatory at all. It won't have to because if the majority volunteers to be chipped, the rest of us won't be able to live as we do today. I've actually had people tell me they can't wait to get chipped so they don't have to carry money or credit cards. You'll have plenty of time to make decisions and provisions before it reaches a critical mass voluntarily or becomes mandatory.