As I don't have a criminal record and don't expect to, I think of fingerprinting me as just an identity measure, and the modern world being what it is, my identity is pretty darned clear already to anyone who knows my name and a fact or two about me. So I might object to it as a general practice, but not care at all about being fingerprinted myself. Also, not that this is especially relevant, but it just occurred to me: do fingerprints that are sent in to be checked against a database of other fingerprints get entered into a criminal system? or do they just get tossed if there's no match?
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