I wonder how many people have been fingerprinted, or rather, how many have never been fingerprinted?

[karen5lund@mastodon.social]

@dtm Got bonded for a job once. I don't know how long these things would have stayed in the records; it was about 35 years ago. (Now, of course, I'm sure it stays in a digital database forever.)

But I never learned to drive; thus, never owned an automobile nor had a license plate.

[chefraven@sfba.social]

@dtm just my thumbprint for financial transactions and when we have signed for our mortgages.

[anctreat@sunny.garden]

@dtm I have for name change reasons.

[jj@beige.party]

@dtm
Was required to get TSA pre check in US.

[slash909uk@mastodon.me.uk]

@dtm collected at the airport by immigration. I forgot which country! Might have been Phillippines?

[thomasjwebb@mastodon.social]

@dtm I was tricked into doing it as a kid anyway, but the only reason I ever had to do it as an adult was because I did substitute teaching for extra money (I'm technically still in the system but too busy with my day job to do it).

[hackersquirrel@kolektiva.social]

@dtm
This is why you wear gloves when you do crime.

[wilpercy@beige.party]

@dtm finger pints are taken each time I return to Japan.

[nivex@tenforward.social]

@dtm @Unlikelylass I got fingerprinted as a kid because my mom bought into the scary criminals might try to abduct me trope.

[nead@social.vivaldi.net]

@dtm If you haven't been fingerprinted, you've most likely been footprinted. 90% of hospitals still take footprints of newborns today. Chances are, if you were born from the 1960's on, you were foot-printed as a baby.
This was done to aid in the investigation of missing children or kidnappings. Some mother's were fingerprinted at the same time as their baby's footprinting.
And of course the nostalgic keepsake from that amazing day.
https://www.usbirthcertificates.com/articles/hospital-baby-footprints

[unlikelylass@mspsocial.net]

@nivex @dtm I briefly had a security clearance during the first time I flunked out of grad school!

[dtm@mastodon.cc]

@Nead Yes, this is certainly true, but there are not really any databases for footprints.

[ahhhhhhhhhhh@mastodon.social]

@dtm personally I'd be interested to be recorded again. I have been fingerprinted but in that time due to work place hazard and allergies my hands have been burnt and scared quite substantially. Be interesting if there has been any change. I know that fingerprints grow back to how they originally were usually but we are talking grabbing tungstan lamps that have just blown and not had enough time to cool. (Yes I was wearing gloves. No that didnt help.)

[pare@kamu.social]

@dtm A European here, had to be fingerprinted to get a passport. When they started that, it was ’it’s only stored on the passport’, but quickly it became ’it’s stored on a server but not used by the police’, and obviously very soon the police was ’can we please use the fingerprint database even though everybody promised at first that it wouldn’t be given to use’.

So. Not happy but I still like having a passport, and an ID card. (That one also requires fingerprints.)