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Some airport lockers now require fingerprints? [priv]
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 01:33:28 -0500
[More privacy questions: What happens to the digitized fingerprints? Are they recorded? Matched against a federal database? Kept on file so a future Patriot Act 2.0 can require any company with stored fingerprints to transmit them and other customer records to the Feds, posthaste? --Declan]
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Airport lockers require fingerprints Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:35:53 -0800 From: kathryn serkes <kaserkes () worldnet att net> To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> References: <4223FCFC.6040509 () well com> Anybody use an airport locker recently? I actually thought they had all been removed since 9/11, but last Saturday used one at the Minneapolis airport while I took my service dog for a bathroom break.Now completely electronic, it required a scan of my fingerprint to authorize
use of a locker, and then again to open it to retrieve items. I paid cash, but there was an option to use a credit card. So I'm wondering if the credit card and fingerprint are linked for full identification, and whether the fingerprint is linked to a database. Did they check me out before they allowed me to use a locker? Kathryn Serkes Square One Media Network _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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