Big Brother is out to steal your.... handprints?

We had these punch in clocks at the gas station I worked at last summer and the summer before. Said station has a chain of a whopping five stores, but earned enough money to afford these pieces of equipment somehow. Anyway, I thought they were great. When I started working, all I had to do was enter the password that was given to me and pick which finger I wanted to use to get the print scanned. After that, it took no more then 10 seconds to enter my password and scan my finger print.

During the time I was absent for university, the business did delete the the information for my fingerprint because there was no longer any need for it to them. I find that satisfactory and for businesses that do use these time clocks should all do the same once that employee is no longer working there. Now as far as the government goes, anytime you are arrested or are going to be working for a government institution like a public school, your fingerprints will be taken whether you like it or not, so it will be tucked away in some database and the paper used to take your prints will be put on file.

Jam it back in, in the dark.