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HanaBothWays t1_jdpmfpf wrote

There are use cases where biometrics are appropriate but, like, not for a sandwich shop.

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asdaaaaaaaa t1_jdq2nn5 wrote

Unfortunately, I'd imagine many people won't think farther when companies say "It's for your security, don't you want to be like Tom Cruise buying your coffee?". I've always wondered why companies didn't do something like this, use fingerprints for verification. I'd imagine there's some good money selling that list/information to various intelligence companies/organizations and law enforcement at the least.

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LagSlug t1_jdqaoif wrote

I don't know about the rest of the nation, but every kid in my elementary school was fingerprinted. We were told it was in case of abduction. Pretty sure it was just data harvesting.

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Upper_Command1390 t1_jdqkadk wrote

Me too. Upstate NY?

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aurora-_ t1_jdqnou9 wrote

Long Island, I remember this vividly but my parents do not recall at all. They say they would have stopped it, but I swear this happened lol

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Upper_Command1390 t1_jdqo54h wrote

It happened. The police came to take our prints and they framed it as something that would help in case we were abducted. I was in the 4th grade and remember that it seemed fishy but I was too young to put my finger onto why. Good news is the cops in my po dunk town we’re probably too incompetent to keep any records of these prints.

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LagSlug t1_jdqqw13 wrote

I don't think they were actually local police. Imagine the problem of domestic terrorism from a government standpoint. Not having a complete database of fingerprints is a gigantic hole in your security apparatus. And unlike most problems, this one has a practical solution.

With a government that lied about the extent to which it was surveilling every person in the USA, and a population that gleefully believed it, I think the chances are pretty slim these events didn't take place, and that we're collectively imagining it.

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aurora-_ t1_jdtq6lb wrote

My parents are gaslighting me but my fucking aunt was there when they did it and she remembers it!

Jokes on you, Nassau County, you got my prints again when i was arrested

but that sounds like a beyond-snowden personal data issue? wtf?

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aurora-_ t1_jdtqg2u wrote

Answered the OP but commenting to you directly as well:

My parents are gaslighting me but my fucking aunt was there when they did it and she remembers it!

Jokes on you, Nassau County, you got my prints again when i was arrested

but that sounds like a beyond-snowden personal data issue? wtf?

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beef-o-lipso t1_jdqtlzt wrote

Fingerprinting children in schools is to help in identifying victims in the event of a shooting or other mishap, but that wouldn't have gone over well with parents.

Pro tip: when someone says "It's for the children" there's a deeper reason they aren't telling you.

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aurora-_ t1_jdtqbea wrote

checking with my aunt, it was sold as “missing child” safety stuff, but still wild

(LI NY about 2005ish?)

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HanaBothWays t1_jdqfky5 wrote

Oh I have heard of cops doing that stuff. I think a lot of adults would balk at it but it’s easy to get a kid to just go along with it.

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SIGMA920 t1_jdsfs1b wrote

> I'd imagine many people won't think farther when companies say "It's for your security, don't you want to be like Tom Cruise buying your coffee?". I've always wondered why companies didn't do something like this, use fingerprints for verification.

Mate, I dislike having to deal with policies that I understand why they exist. Trying to sell less convenience for me as it being "cool" is just going to make me tell you to fuck off. I'm using a credit card, just run it through the POS and let me pay already.

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schrodinger1887 t1_jdqdex2 wrote

Correct. For example, the nuclear facilities that I used to work at had palm scanning biometrics. We can all conclude why that is a good idea. Now for Panera bread...... they can just down right go fuck themselves. They are not getting my kitten print just to be released later on in a data breach.

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AccidentallyTheCable t1_jdrve2k wrote

Now just wait until panera gets compromised and now a panera attacker can use your biometrics to get into the nuclear facility.

What could possibly go wrong?!!?

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