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Library to Require Fingerprint to Use PCs

Posted by Zonk on from the who-doesn't-like-to-be-tracked? dept.

FearUncertaintyDoubt writes "Three libraries in Naperville, IL, soon will start requiring patrons who use the library's PCs to provide a fingerprint scan. The article says, ' Library officials say the added security is necessary to ensure people who are using the computers are who they say they are. Officials promise to protect the confidentiality of the fingerprint records.'"

12 of 507 comments (clear)

  1. Where can I obtain... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...a copy of Elvis's fingerprint?

    1. Re:Where can I obtain... by SCO+STINKS · · Score: 2, Funny

      I believe you need to go to Wendys and order the chili!

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  2. In other related news... by DarkHelmet · · Score: 2, Funny
    Looks like Chancellor Palpatine has asked the American Senate to grant him more executive powers... Go Darthie!

    Wait a minute... Guess I'm confusing names in an otherwise similar reality.

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  3. Re:Stop this while you can, REFUSE to use it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Meh. Their game, their rules.

    If you think being asked for a fingerprint is bad, try borrowing a book from me sometime.

  4. Easy workaround by lheal · · Score: 1, Funny
    [ob]
    1. Eat at Wendy's
    2. Order the Chili
    3. Use that thumb
    [/ob]
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  5. Re:Stop this while you can, REFUSE to use it! by alecks · · Score: 3, Funny

    So what's to stop me from cutting someone's finger off and use that to log on? All this security shmecurity and people overlook the obvious.

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  6. Re:Egh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    > "We take people's fingerprints because we think they might be guilty of something, not because they want to use the library," said Ed Yohnka, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.

    Anybody using a library is at a minimum, guilty of literacy, and there's probable cause for being guilty of wanting to learn something. Hang 'em high!

  7. You know what they say... by the+MaD+HuNGaRIaN · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, the Library checks out YOU!!!

    In China, only old people go to the library to use computers.

    1. Make fingerprint scanner
    2. Con librarians into buying it
    3. ???
    4. PROFIT!

    They can get my fingerprint when they pull my finger out of Cowboy Neal's butt.

    Let's see.....Soviet Russia, Chinese old people, profit, Cowboy Neal reference. Now only if this would have been the first post....

    1. Re:You know what they say... by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you insist on using a clichè, please use it correctly.

      And if you insist on using fancy accents, please use the correct one. It's cliché.

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  8. As long as... by gammygator · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can use my middle finger for the print.

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  9. The SHOCKING Rise in THIEFT of LIBRARY CARDS by Univac_1004 · · Score: 2, Funny
    ..MUST BE STOPPED!!

    A national disgrace, I'm sure.

  10. Re:Egh by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know what the big deal is; I'd be more than happy to give these librarians the finger.