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1000 pounds for the UK Prime Minister’s fingerprints.
1000 pounds for the UK Prime Minister’s fingerprints
"The Chaos Computer Club’s (CCC) action in publishing the fingerprints of German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble along with a film showing methods of copying and reproducing fingerprint has now been taken up by British civil rights groups. No2ID and Privacy International are offering 1000 pounds (1260 euros) for the fingerprints of the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
Both organisations have posted old style ‘Wanted’ posters on their websites, on which they accuse the two of conspiracy and identity theft. Following on from the “great work” of the CCC, the aim is to draw the attention of politicians in the United Kingdom to the dubious nature of biometric data collection and to the intention to “undermine the right to ownership of and control over their own biometric data.”
"The fingerprints must be obtained legally, for example by collection from a door handle, beer glass or some other object with a hard surface. The money will not be paid to the “bounty hunter”, but to a charity nominated by them.
According to its critics, the British government is fairly singular in wanting to record all ten fingerprints of all citizens and save them in a central database. This is, in their opinion, treating all British citizens as criminals
