Re: Florida Drivers Permits and a Hello

>What possible value could the LEAs get by having your thumbprint digitally
>encoded on your driver's license?  It's not like the average cop-on-the-beat
>is qualified to lift a fingerprint and compare it.  Even if he was, how
>does it benefit that the fingerprint is on the license?
>
>This seems silly.

There are device that will electronicly read fingerprints available now.  So
with such a device, the LEO would know instantly if you were who you said
that you were.

And somebody, Science Applications International Corp. I think, is 
designing an in-car fingerprint reader / database query-er for cops.  So 
they can check your bona fides on the road sides.

bd


On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Dave wrote:

> 
> >What possible value could the LEAs get by having your thumbprint digitally
> >encoded on your driver's license?  It's not like the average cop-on-the-beat
> >is qualified to lift a fingerprint and compare it.  Even if he was, how
> >does it benefit that the fingerprint is on the license?
> >
> >This seems silly.
> 
> There are device that will electronicly read fingerprints available now.  So
> with such a device, the LEO would know instantly if you were who you said
> that you were.
> 
>

On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Brad Dolan wrote:

> And somebody, Science Applications International Corp. I think, is 
> designing an in-car fingerprint reader / database query-er for cops.  So 
> they can check your bona fides on the road sides.
> 
> bd

It's too bad for law enforcement that the Chadian driver's license I use 
doesn't have any fingerpints on it and was obtained without requiring the 
surrender of any "finger images." 

DCF

"Yes Virginia, heroic Chad fighters equipped with French 
shoulder-launched missles and Toyota Pickups did, in fact, defeat an 
Libyan armored invasion force."

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In list.cypherpunks, bdolan@use.usit.net writes:

> And somebody, Science Applications International Corp. I think, is 
> designing an in-car fingerprint reader / database query-er for cops.  So 
> they can check your bona fides on the road sides.

The company I know definitely is on this is Digital Biometrics, Inc,
located in Minnetonka, Minnesota.  Their device is called a SQUID (and
no, I don't know what the acronym stands for).  About 8" long and
roughly 2.5" squarish, it has a lens in front where the subject's thumb
is placed, and scans the lens with a laser.  It's not quite in
production yet, although prototypes are under construction.  I happen to
work for the company doing the machining work.
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