Monday, October 27, 2008

Police State Tightening Its Grip

Police will soon be checking the identities of people in the street using hand-held mobile fingerprint scanners.

It is understood that the BlackBerry-sized devices are being issued to every UK police force under a scheme called Mobile Identification At Scene (MIDAS). They always have to have a smart acronym don't they?

They will enable officers to scan suspects' fingerprints and compare them against national records. So that will be more justification, in the eyes of the government, for a national database carrying all our fingerprints. After all, if you have not been fingerprinted and therefore don't show up on MIDAS what will they do? Probably drag you down the nick in case you are here illegaly. Then suggest it would save such misunderstandings in future if you 'volunteered' your fingerprints.

1 comment:

Mark Wadsworth said...

They always have to have a smart acronym don't they?

Yup. Dreamed up by some humourless geeks in the Smart Acronyms Department.