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US Expands Fingerprint and Mugshot Program for Visitors
prakslash writes "The US State Department has expanded its anti-terrorist fingerprinting program to include visitors from close US allies such as the UK, Australia, France, Germany and Japan. Everytime a visitor enters or leaves the US, they will have to get their mugshot and fingerprints taken - something that used to be mainly limited to your local police precinct. More news can be found here and here. In addition to the huge costs involved, one has to wonder if this will affect tourism to this country." Hmmm, a huge database of digital mugshots and digital fingerprints, which will be kept forever - hope we have enough RAM to search through it quickly and constantly.
How much distance are we going to get out of that /. article on the massive government memory upgrade? :)
Was just watching PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers and he had just finished an interview with John Dean of Watergate fame, and who has just recently released a book entitled "Worse Than Watergate" which asks about most of the secrecy behind the Bush White House... does anyone else find this world we're living in just a bit more and more uglier on the road to November?
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And oh my, how I worry about the turnover to the Iraqis on July 1st...
*shudder*
Book is here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai
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