>>I've been fingerprinted.
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>That is a basic requirement of being a cop.
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>>I will soon be getting a passport, for the first time, and I see they want me to tell them who I am. Now, that is an invasion of my privacy, isn't it?
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>No it is not an invasion of privacy, just requirement to get the device that identifies you when crossing borders.
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>>I think everyone who enters or leaves our country should give DNA samples, so they can be identified, if/when necessary.
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>Arrh, so we are all guilty until proven innocent, I thought it was the other way round, I always had a sneaking suspicion that that is how the police viewed the general public.
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>Anyway it is just another step toward "Big Brother"
So you don't have a problem with providing identification you just feel it is a violation of your rights if efforts are made to make sure it is a correct identification?
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
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