They're not storing fingerprints... just a data matching hash
Sure - require permission. But to counter the shrill rhetoric...
Surely they're not storing the actual fingerprints – like PC Plod getting inky prints onto a little white piece of cardboard – just a hash of essential data points allowing a scanner to match it? Like my lappy does. What harm could come from that?
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They're not storing fingerprints... just a data matching hash
Sure - require permission. But to counter the shrill rhetoric...
Surely they're not storing the actual fingerprints – like PC Plod getting inky prints onto a little white piece of cardboard – just a hash of essential data points allowing a scanner to match it? Like my lappy does. What harm could come from that?
But what's the purpose of that big coin? That's just a plain waste of space.
But what's the purpose of that big coin? That's just a plain waste of space.