"May Ve See Your Fingers, Please"
I read this article in the BBC this morning that British police are now fingerprinting people on the streets using portable electronic devices to prove their identity. The article says that it is primarily being used to verify the identity of drivers without licenses.
I admire the technological efficiency but find the big brother implications troubling. The Brits have been wrestling with terrorism for a long time and seem more comfortable with police power than we do in the states where there isn't even a national ID card. I don't know how this street fingerprint project would fare in the US with our stronger focus on personal rights and liberties. Post 9/11 we are submitting to procedures I would never have expected a decade ago.