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>I mean we already give our fingerprints to the DMV, and to the Customs/Immigration desk when coming back from an international flight.

I'm not sure what country you live in, but US citizens most certainly are not required to give their fingerprints to the DMV or Customs/Immigration when flying internationally.

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There's more than 50 American DMVs, all the states plus DC and each of the territories have their own. Do you really think you know everything about all the requirements for an ID for all of them to make such a statement?

Which DMVs require fingerprints?

Please reread my post, I never claimed any did.

But anyway, off the top of my head:

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/05/us/3-accused-of-murder-in-...

>The police later discovered that a thumbprint from the corpse did not match the one on Mr. Hanson's California driver's license.

Probably the country of California. (Or possibly Colorado, Georgia, or Texas - according to a quick google search.)

Not CA, MD, or HI, where supposedly this sort of thing would happen.

I recall my thumbprint being collected in CA (in the peninsula). It's been a few years. I remember it because I found it somewhat disturbing that they collected thumbprints. The CA DMV web site confirms this practice:

"Fingerprints, including thumbprint, are collected by DMV for added security to your driver license information"

-- https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/dl/how_info_shared

If your experience is different (I may be misreading your response), maybe it varies by office or it's been a while since you've registered in a DMV office in CA?

I stand corrected, I didn't have mine collected in early 2015. It appears the policy has changed.

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