AdobePinon

Nah. There's nothing in the constitution to protect privacy, at least in a general sense.

fatbrit

Curtilage.

fatbrit

USSC have thrashed out your rights to privacy many times. It's not a general right but rather depends on the context. In the bathroom of your home, for example, you expect a much higher degree of privacy than when driving your car down the highway.


I'm all with you BTW on not trusting my government to do the right thing. But you did give them your fingerprints of your own volition. I think it would be an uphill struggle to get it to the USSC. But if you want to try, I shall follow with interest and may even applaud at suitable moments.

Rete

I believe so, and no I can't prove it, but since the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have data banks of FP then once a fingerprint is put into the system, it stays in the system.

My husband's is in the system for Canada, the US and Interpol. When I think about it, I'm actually glad that FP would be in the system. I can think of any number of reasons why it would be beneficial as a means of identifying a body and/or live person. A lot less invasionary then a credit or medical history.

1skydive

This is true, my fingerprints were freely given, but, as they stated to me, it was so they could check for 'terrorist activity' and other potential criminal involvement. When none were found, really, should they not destroy that information?

Of course, they are not going to do this of their own accord. I thought perhaps someone may have challenged this. I for one, am not going to be the first challenger; it's not particularly my style.

Rete, I'm not freaking out. I've actually been thinking about this for a number of years. It was just an article on Slashdot yesterday that brought this topic to the forefront of my mind. I figured it would be worth a question to see if it had been challenged.

After this thread is dead and buried, I'll go back to just 'thinking about it' again. Being an IT guy, its kind of in my nature to be a little paranoid and a bit of a conspiracy theorist.

Ray

I though that was connective tissue

fatbrit

You should know that one with FL's Castle Doctrine and your bloody, great arsenal!

Ray

Oh that bit of land ....I protect ...

fatbrit

Yep -- Florida's very own squirrel-free zone!

Ray

Now for that bleedin whippoorwill...

chicagojlo

I would have thought that since you can be deported for committing certain crimes they keep your fingerprints so they can identify you as a deportable person?

Rete

St. Ray is making Florida squirrel free just as St. Patrick made Ireland snakeless.

One day they will erect a statute in his honor in "it's a small world" in Disneyland and all the little folk will pay homage to his likeness.

Ray

Its already up .... they call me Pluto there ..

Rete

The animal or once was planet?????

Hmmm the animal I believe. Just look at them ears

1skydive

Yeah, that's actually quite the question. Can a country deport it's own citizens I wonder?