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Wasn't happening when I had my kids.
The second part isn't the issue to me because I'm not expecting gun confiscations or mass roundups. I refer you to what happened to the attorney mentioned in the article. The FBI got a weak match on his prints and decided he was a terrorist even though they were repeatedly told by the Spanish government they had the wrong guy and knew they had a weak match. Trolling through an omni print database will result in more false positives and more innocent people having their lives wrecked....and the facial recognition matches they want to add to the print database will be an even worse source of false positives.
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Searchable like this? If so, just as wrong. I expected mine to be on file even without a background check since I was in the military. However, I didn't expect them to be part of every criminal database search, and they weren't, until this year.Beiruty wrote:All legal immigrants going through Naturalization have their fingerprints on records even when they committed no crime at all.
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The FBI considers all of us suspects now
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/l ... ain-part-1
The change, which the FBI revealed quietly in a February 2015 Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), means that if you ever have your fingerprints taken for licensing or for a background check, they will most likely end up living indefinitely in the FBI’s NGI database. They’ll be searched thousands of times a day by law enforcement agencies across the country—even if your prints didn’t match any criminal records when they were first submitted to the system.
This is the first time the FBI has allowed routine criminal searches of its civil fingerprint data. Although employers and certifying agencies have submitted prints to the FBI for decades, the FBI says it rarely retained these non-criminal prints. And even when it did retain prints in the past, they “were not readily accessible or searchable.” Now, not only will these prints—and the biographical data included with them—be available to any law enforcement agent who wants to look for them, they will be searched as a matter of course along with all prints collected for a clearly criminal purpose (like upon arrest or at time of booking).