Is this just an excuse to fingerprint the Nation?

Question

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1038879/All-air-passengers-fingerprints---reason-security-simply-raise-profits-duty-free-shops.html

Answer 1

Oops, Daily Mail again, expect the usual derogatory remarks from the usual suspects.

Your question: Is there no depth to which this Nu Layber crowd will stoop to get us all recorded on their 'anti-terrorism' (ha ha) database? I for one will be long gone from the UK before this latest piece of Big Brother becomes law.

There are other examples from our 'EU cousins'..... http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/2...

Answer 2

People keep saying that if you're not doing anything 'illegal', that there is nothing to worry about.

-That's not the point.

This is just one more right of privacy being taken away from everyone!

There are those who value 'Security' to the extent that they would voluntarily give up their rights to privacy, believing that the Government  knows best.

There are also those who cherish their freedoms and Individual rights, and live law-abiding lives, but don't relish the idea of the Government documenting everything about them, and realize it is an eventuality before 'Big Brother' becomes a Global Database recording all sorts of information about people, and Governments  pass legislation  prohibiting the continuation of Individual rights and liberties.  

hence, no more privacy, and Freedom will have become an obsolete part of history.

Freedom.

That's what it's really all about. How much Freedom are you willing to give up  (PERMANENTLY!)? Because once each piece of legislation is passed, that Individual Right/Liberty is forever gone.

Wait and see.

It's happening already.

Answer 3

As long as this procedure does not spread to other areas of our freedom then I have no problem with it. I am British living abroad, I fly regularly to the UK and would not mind them having my prints AS LONG AS IT IS ONLY FOR AIRPORT USE. I don't like the idea of everyone being fingerprinted en mass, as I think this smacks of Big Brother.

It will obviously be  much harder for illegals to move around, and this is always a welcome. BUT, as long as once they have been caught they get immediate deportation not a slap on the wrist and allowed to stay.

I can see some people ranting about their civil liberties right now!!!

Answer 4

Where I live we have identity cards. They have our finger prints on them. There is no big deal unless you have something to hide.

Answer 5

Yes it is. If history teaches us anything, it will be introduced at airports to test it and then it will spread into the rest of society. The government is run by a bunch of control freaks (targets, targets) who want more and more control over our everyday lives. The terrorism threat is real, but it does NOT justify monitoring a whole nation of ordinary people including the sick, the disabled, pensioners and children (there are 14 million surveillance cameras in Britain and thousands of children are on the DNA database). The Blair-Brown government should have stayed out of Iraq, maintained our borders and controlled immigration, and we wouldn't have all these problems.

I believe there will be a backlash. I don't just mean against the government because Brown's days are numbered anyway, but I believe ordinary people will eventually stand up to this creeping surveillance as they did with the poll tax. We are already the most watched nation on earth.

Answer 6

No - it will only be used at airports, and the majority of people do not fly regularly.

Answer 7

Maybe but if you aint a crook you got nothing to worry about have you?

If you aint an illegal you got nothing to worry about have you?

So get a life and get over it as it's going to happen one way or another.

Answer 8

Yes,

Do you trust them not to lose your data, misuse your data.... you are already on over 30 databases that the govt holds.... Car ownership, poll tax details,

This is just  another scam to control and mind f**k us ordinary folks under another guise.... of SECURITY.

Answer 9

So what. If you land in the US they have been doing that for years. They also do eye scanning and take your photo. It is about time they got serious in the UK at airports. They will probably only do it for international flights.

Answer 10

you bet ye