Would You Want, and/or Do You Have, Your Fingerprints On File At Liquor Stores?

[SlowwHand]

I've never heard of this until now. It was just on the news, and said several states already do it?
I don't want that crap. Even if they couldn't tell, I'd rather show my driver's license.
What do you think? What's your experience?

[Jon Miller]

I Don't want my fingerprints on file with the state.

JM

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
I Don't want my fingerprints on file with the state.

JM

Yeah, I mean simply because we are slowly sliding into police state-ism doesn't mean we have to give them more help!

My drivers' license should be good enough for you. If people fake them, make a better license.

[SlowwHand]

For liquor sales. Screw that.

[LordShiva]

The guy who runs the liquor store down the street would go out of business if I stopped shopping there, so I'm sure he'd bend the rules for me.

[Perfection]

If the liquor store wants to do it, fine! Good for the liquor store! If the government makes the liquor store do it then, it's time to grab the pitchfork.

[Admiral]

We shouldn't give the government or anyone in the government the capability to track our liquor purchases. The state should have no interest in knowing. And as for fake IDs, I agree with Imran: make better licenses. Its what they did to physical money.

[Pekka]

Absolutely not.I woudln't want to give my prints to anyone, period, let alone some liquor store... just have to buy from somewhere else then.

[Sprayber]

Feds already have my finger prints.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


Yeah, I mean simply because we are slowly sliding into police state-ism doesn't mean we have to give them more help!

My drivers' license should be good enough for you. If people fake them, make a better license.

Oh course, thanks to a measure passed by Congress a couple of years back, your drivers license will soon require your fingerprints, and the prints will become part of a federal database.

[bipolarbear]

It would be nice if fingerprints could act as a replacement for the card. Like when you go to Blockbuster, get done finding your movies etc., get through the line only to realize you left the card at home.

However, prints in conjunction with an ID card is total b.s. Fake IDs aren't as easy to come by now as they have been in the past, and it really isn't a problem.

Btw, What happens when a quad amputee wants to get sloshed?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by bipolarbear
It would be nice if fingerprints could act as a replacement for the card. Like when you go to Blockbuster, get done finding your movies etc., get through the line only to realize you left the card at home.

The problem with this is that the scanned prints have to match and little things can throw them off. Cut your finger? Got a wart? Worked with Superglue yesterday? No booze for you!

This problem has reached hilarious proportions at the condo where a friend of my daughter lives. Singapore being an Asian high-tech heaven, the condo decided to implement a fingerscan system for access to the elevators. The problem is that the condo has a pool. Outside. On the ground floor. So people go swimming for a while, their hands get all prune-y, and they find themselves trapped outside in their swimwear.

[bipolarbear]

Yeah I don't mean that it should be something to rely on, but it would be an available option to help speed things up a little.

[C0ckney]

if any store asked me to provide my fingerprints, then they would find me taking my business elsewhere.

[Pekka]

cockey, exactly. I will not trade privacy or the potential of the technology to convinience. Credit cards and IDs are convinient enough.