[Politech] Some airport lockers now require fingerprints? [priv]

[Declan McCullagh]

[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]

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Subject: Airport lockers require fingerprints
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:35:53 -0800
From: kathryn serkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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
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