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Seems like this would be to collect faces of what they consider "dissedents" rather than verify citizenship which can be done much more accurately through a mobile fingerprint reader.

Then again, who needs accuracy when you dissapear people without a warrant.

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Fingerprint is individual surveillance, face scanning is mass surveillance. I'd expect governments to always favour the latter if given the choice.

When are citizens’ fingerprints normally put on file, in the US? Or, for that matter, noncitizens who entered irregularly?

When you get a driver's license, for one.

I don't recall getting fingerprinted when I got my Driver's license or renewed, or even when I had to switch to a national id version for travel.

I did get fingerprint registration while considering adoption with my ex-wife as part of the background check.

Texas takes the fingerprints of everyone who is issued a drivers license. In other states its usually only for commercial licenses.

I've lived in 6 different states and never once got fingerprinted when obtaining a driver's license.

AFAIK only if you are booked into jail, and also for some licenses. For example, a beer and wine license for a restaurant requires fingerprints, at least in my state, not sure how it varies. Probably some types of firearm licenses as well. Not typical driver's licenses though.

Joining a program like NEXUS or Global Entry is the only time I’ve had my fingerprints taken by the govt. When I worked for a couple highly-regulated financial institutions I was fingerprinted as part of a background check but that was done by a private party who (allegedly) was just checking for matches with known criminals.

Anyone going thru the process of getting licensed as a stockbroker is fingerprinted (Series 63, 7 test)

Its possible that insurance broker license is the same. Same for pharmacist.

I think a lot of US trades have fingerprinting as requisite, particularly if they require a background check.

Truck drivers and substitute schoolteachers too (I was a sub teacher at one point and the closest place to go to get fingerprinted was a truck driving school.)

joined the military. they did fingerprints and IIRC they were starting to log DNA.

if you have access to profoundly expensive weaponry and training to use it, it makes sense. also if you're shipping bodies back in pieces -- fingerprints, dental records, and DNA may be the only way to figure out what happened to you.

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