Finger prints have been used for such a long time. People know that they can be used to identify you and that they never change for the course of your life yet some criminals are still dumb enough to leave some of them behind. I find it interesting that even back in King Solomon's time that people knew that finger prints were unique to you and they used the print to distinguish their pottery from others. I am not sure if I agree with Simson on the notion that people used finger prints because they were racist and couldn't tell the difference between the Chinese people that were getting off of the boats to immigrate to San Francisco. I think that they were being proactive in starting to get a registry of all members of the city and they knew that that was the best way to get the prints of the immigrants.
I find computerized biometrics to be very invasive for the average citizen. I can understand the need for them when it comes to government jobs (Mission Impossible 1 shows the need of these systems when that guy has to do a retinal scan and a voice scan just to get into the room that has to door to the computer.... Man, that's my second Tom Cruise reference in as many posts.... I swear that is purely coincidence). To me, there is no real need for every citizen to have their fingerprints or DNA on file in some government database so that they can have a record of every citizen. It really bothers me but, as you probably can tell, I am very careful and cautious about giving my information away. I just don't trust people (or the government) I guess.
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