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05-25-2009, 12:40 AM
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I can't believe you're comparing Holland to China and Nazi Germany.
I'm not. I was naming examples of places where private information is used for much more then just keeping the peace.

As far as the fingerprinting goes, this means that if I'm out having a drink at a bar and go home, and some douchebag shoots someone in that same bar, police will be at MY door (even though I wasn't even there at the time of the shooting) because they found my fingerprint in the bar amongst all the debris.

And you might say 'well but that's only for a more efficient manhunt'. Yes that may be, but you also have to consider that unless you've been ruled out you're a potential murder suspect, just for having a drink in a bar.

I'm all for more efficient crime control but not if it means having the police on my doorstep everytime a crime goes on somewhere I happened to be less then 24 hours ago. Automatically being a suspect because of my fingerprint being there is not something I'm very comfortable with. Because you just know that's going to go wrong with someone eventually.
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