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US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI

Posted by Hemos on from the probably-not-at-this-point dept.

stair69 writes "Since 2004 many visitors to the United States have had 2 fingerprints taken under the US-VISIT scheme. Now there are new plans to extend this scheme — under the proposal all 10 fingerprints will be taken, and they will be stored permanently on the FBI's criminal fingerprint database. The fingerprints will also be made available to police forces in other countries. The scheme is due to be introduced by the end of 2008, but it will be trialled in 10 of the bigger airports initially." Of course, it is worth pointing out that given the recent change in Congress, I suspect that a number of countries will get a "bye" on this round,

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  1. No finger prints helps. by Anon-Admin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just use a belt sander with 80 grit paper on it.

    Turn it on, place fingers on sand paper, hold as long as you can stand it. Repeat until prints are gone. No problem.

    Finger prints are only 1/32 of an in deep. It is dead skin and serves no real purpose. I started sanding mine off several years ago when the state went to mandatory fingerprinting to get a drivers license. It is easy and the look on the persons face when you say "I don't have finger prints!" is just something else. :)

    The other thing you can do is to cover the tips of your fingers with super glue. It works quite well and does not come off for some time.

    1. Re:No finger prints helps. by new+death+barbie · · Score: 5, Funny
      "I don't have finger prints!"


      So... any time there's no fingerprints at the crime scene... that was YOU?
      --

      It's supposed to be completely automatic, but actually you have to press this button.

  2. Re:Nothing for me to worry about by kfg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nonsense. Some of us are the consumed.

    KFG

  3. Re:Hilarious by shaneh0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "computers can nowadays compare fingerprints with ease"

    Yes, but since it has to display the photo of the person in order to properly do the print match, won't we get to a point where we can't go any faster? I mean, the human eye is only so fast. The whole notion of finger-print matching just wouldn't feel right if you don't see 10,000 faces stream across the screen before finally finding the match.

  4. Re:I like the US. Americans are nice... by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but I couldn't eat a whole one. At least, not without some fava beans and a nice chianti to wash it down...

  5. Here's my Reference by shaneh0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm pretty confident in my post. You should check my references for this.