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

I believe that Germany has started trials of thumb print readers for credit cards, biometric identification is looking like the future of identification. I can understand how there might be opposition to it in America though, given you're about the only country in the world not to have adopted chip and pin yet.

I agree though that I'm not happy with my biometric data being passed around. Our government has proved several times that it can't keep data secure and the more they have, the more there is to lose. Luckily, my passport will need renewing next year, before the biometric ID cards become compulsary for new passport applicatants.

I would suggest though that most people are objecting to this because they're work-shy more than any real moral objections.

Jam it back in, in the dark.