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Police Ask Stores to Take Fingerprints

Posted by Hemos on from the yet-another-step dept.

Coffee Warlord writes "Operation Thumbs Up, scheduled to begin citywide Sunday, aims to help authorities identify check theft and forgery by obtaining a source of identification that can't be stolen or faked - fingerprints. Dawson doesn't expect complaints from customers. "I anticipate if you are not guilty of anything, it's not going to matter to you if someone takes your thumbprint," she said. -- There are so many things wrong with this, I can't even begin to start."

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  1. How about the UK by Admiral+Lazzurs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here we have things called cheque gaurntee cards and you must use them every time you use a cheque in a store.

    The bank issues them and they have set ammounts that are an upper limit that you can write cheques to.

    Also if you are with a good bank like rbs they will put your photo on it so there is no doubt the person using the card (which is always a debit/credit card as well) is you.

    Another great thing about these is that no matter how much money you have in your account becuause the cheque was presented with a card the bank must pay up on it so it is really useful if you are a poor starving strudent.

    However for the wonderful UK this is not enough, I mean ffs having your photo on the card is not enough so they are testing this system out here as well!!

    Just my 2 gb pennies :)