I had to get fingerprinted this morning. It's a fact. In order to get a license to practice law, you have to provide full prints to the state of California. They use them to run a background check with the Department of Justice and the FBI.
Disneyland also fingerprints you these days if you want to buy a season pass.
I was going to rant about the excessive biometric data tracking we put up with, to decry the inroads that technology makes on our privacy, but what's the point. Why bother railing against a foregone conclusion. Just know dear reader, the police no longer peep in your windows, they use infrared imaging devices. And fingerprints no longer involve stamp pads, but fully digitalized snapshots of the full breadth of your finger.
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I had to get a digital snapshot of my finger to get a California Driver's License last year.
CA required a thumb print for the background check but IL didn't. Though I think IL ran a credit check (I am not kidding about that).
What's the point in complaining? They already print you for taking the LSATs, I got printed a long time ago (both my hands, all 10 fingers and some palm prints) for my green card and then citizenship. Plus, they'll print you AT the actual bar exam as well. But the little stamp kind, not a digital scan.
This was a full ten finger pads + 2 full finger prints from pads to palm.
I think it's completely inappropriate to be collecting biodata so cavalierly from the general population. There are a million practicing lawyers in California. Why do we need a million sets of fingerprints?
Oops, yeah, the CA moral character app did require the whole hogger.
They are running you against the national databases I assume. Like I said, when you get naturalised/green carded your entire handprint is entered into some database. Ostensibly if you have a criminal history they do the same. They're likely running you against databases. Who knows?
I love this one line from a book I'm reading. "We can't get lawyers to commit this crime. It's too straightforward for them."
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