"Magda" wrote in message
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On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 16:29:44 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, AJC
arranged some
electrons, so they looked like this :


... Having finger-prints taken for a driving licence? Maybe in Cuba, the
... former DDR, or some other 'big brother' regime, but certainly not in
... any free country. Finger-printing is for criminals.

I have had my 10 fingerprints taken when I got my first identity card at
18. That card had
a big print (including sides) of my right thumb right under my picture. I
didn't feel I
was being treated as a criminal at all. I wasn't intending to get in
trouble anyway, so I
was glad that if an identity mistake happened, the police already had my
fingerprints and
could prove my innocence.

In my country UK) fingerprints mean you are suspected of having committed a
crime.
That is why we object.