British police will be issued handheld fingerprint scanning devices as early as 2010, a U.K. police agency said Monday.So, where does Canada stand on this issue?
The technology, which has already been tested by 20 forces in England and Wales using mobile-phone sized devices, will be rolled out to the rest of the country within the next 18 months, the National Policing Improvement Agency announced Monday.
According to the office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Canadian law has tended to view fingerprints as personal information and taken a more restrained approach to their collection.Yup... coddle the criminals... screw the victims.
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