Fingerprint Registry in Housing Bill!!!

[megimoo]

" The next violation of our freedoms will be a national DNA registry !"

Fingerprints are considered to be among the most personal of information, and fingerprint databases created and proposed in the name of national security have generated much debate. Recently, “Server in the Sky” — a proposed international database of the fingerprints of suspected criminals and terrorists to be shared among the U.S., U.K. and Canada — has ignited a firestorm of controversy. As have cavalier comments by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that fingerprints aren’t “personal data.”

Yet earlier this week, a measure creating a federal fingerprint registry totally unrelated to national security passed a U.S. Senate committee almost without notice. The legislation would require thousands of individuals working even tangentially in the mortgage and real estate industries — and not suspected of anything — to send their prints to the feds. The database and fingerprint mandates were tucked into housing and foreclosure assistance bills that on Tuesday passed the Senate Banking Committee by a vote of 19-2.snip

http://www.openmarket.org/2008/05/23/fingerprint-registry-in-housing-bill/

[Rebel]

Hell, mine have been in a registry since 06Jun92.

[Chris_]

" The next violation of our freedoms will be a national DNA registry !"

Fingerprints are considered to be among the most personal of information, and fingerprint databases created and proposed in the name of national security have generated much debate. Recently, “Server in the Sky” — a proposed international database of the fingerprints of suspected criminals and terrorists to be shared among the U.S., U.K. and Canada — has ignited a firestorm of controversy. As have cavalier comments by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that fingerprints aren’t “personal data.”

Yet earlier this week, a measure creating a federal fingerprint registry totally unrelated to national security passed a U.S. Senate committee almost without notice. The legislation would require thousands of individuals working even tangentially in the mortgage and real estate industries — and not suspected of anything — to send their prints to the feds. The database and fingerprint mandates were tucked into housing and foreclosure assistance bills that on Tuesday passed the Senate Banking Committee by a vote of 19-2.snip

http://www.openmarket.org/2008/05/23/fingerprint-registry-in-housing-bill/

[megimoo]

Hell, mine have been in a registry since 06Jun92.

Clearance for top secret requires fingerprinting !

[Lord Undies]

Fingerprints are considered to be among the most personal of information

Well then, why do we think nothing of leaving them everywhere and why aren't we all wearing gloves?

[Rebel]

Hell, mine have been in a registry since 06Jun92.

Clearance for top secret requires fingerprinting !

I didn't have a clearance in 92. I was medical from 92-95. When I reclassed at Gordon as a 74G I had to get a clearance. All military SMs have their fingerprints taken.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Hell, mine have been in a registry since 06Jun92.

Clearance for top secret requires fingerprinting !

Any kind of clearance, no matter how low, actually.  Also for admission to many professions, handgun carry licenses, NFA weapons transfers, C&R licenses, and all kinds of other crap.  Afraid this doesn't bother me at all, and in a legal sense Chertoff is 100% in line with long-established law in his assertions.