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Originally Posted by atheistwithfaith
I don't live in fear of terrorist attacks though, and if someone wants to blow up a plane then it will be easy for a terrorist group to find someone not on the government terrorist database - the difficult part is getting a bomb onboard. Having your retina / fingerprint will make no difference surely.
Apart from on the occasion of immigration / emmigration there is no reason to take that information and even then it should be destroyed upon returning to your home country. I understand its important for government to be able to count people entering and leaving the country and to ensure that those people who enter leave when they are supposed to but in 99% (perhaps 100%) of situations it will be of no benefit to me or anyone else having my fingerprint or retina. I am still just as likely to be a victim of crime whether everyone has their fingerprint / retina / DNA on a database / ID card or not.
I should add that I am not vehrmently opposed to having that information in an alien card when I visit Japan but I am opposed to the rolling out of such forms of data gathering when a government applies it to its whole population.
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When you visit japan you get fingerprinted at the airport since a gaijin card is only for residents. How are you so sure that people will commit crimes regardless of the government having dna?? Did you know that there a lot of open cases that JUST have dna as evidence and because they aren't convicted criminals yet, they are free to commit any other future crimes.
If don't care about the damage that has been done to us by terrorist, I hope you don't call yourself American. I for example lost some friends and a family member in the 9/11 attack, I love it if we took measures to prevent it. Even if it decreases chances by 1%.
Future holds retina and fingerprint identification, whether you like it or not.
(My guess:
In the future you will get off an aircraft and upon exit to the landing hall you will hear the tanoy announce that you should remove any sunglasses or any item covering your eyes. From over 800 yards away a multiple scan will be in progress and it will be flicking through each traveller in recognition of their Citizenship. All unrecognised travellers will be funnelled into numbered channels for country verification and status checks. Anyone travelling on a non chip compatible passport will be refused entry. )
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Originally Posted by MMM
Visitors are not required to have alien registration cards. Non-Japanese residents are.
Why are you opposed to such forms of data gathering when it applies to a whole population?
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Some people fail to see that its for a greater cause, and instead of looking into the possitive effects they stick to the small things like:
"OMFGZ invasion of privacy" "
"no waii I haven't done nothing wrong!!!"
"Thats for criminals"
"OMFG my forefathers left me rights!!!"
"Its violating my constitutional rights"
I find people who think that their country's laws apply to wherever they are traveling, very ignorant.