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I remember being fingerprinted in elementary school. Is this still common practice in USA?
I don't remember anything like that happening to me. I hope that's not common.
Very, very common.
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#22Nice try, FBI.
Not today, NSA.
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#23While i understand the skepticism, at least they are trying to streamline a process. a quick search reveals the startling statistic: Every 40 seconds, a child goes missing or is abducted in the United States. Approximately 840,000 children are reported missing each year. having access to rapid id/photo. Minutes are precious. I'm no expert but + for fbi, minus for the cynics. Just my 2 cents
That stat isn't as startling as it seems when you dig in; most of those are custody disputes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/most-kidnapped-childr...
> But contrary to the dominant narrative, nearly all child abductions are perpetrated by family members. Stranger abductions — certainly alarming and tragic — actually occur with “lightning-strike rarity,” as a report in the journal Criminal Justice Studies put it, in contrast to the more than 200,000 parental abductions committed each year that meet the criminal criteria and are not merely delayed visitations or misunderstandings.
And the 840k number massively overstates actual active cases; reports can be solved in a matter of minutes/hours, like a lost kid at an amusement park.
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-us-missing/fact-ch...
> Therefore, of the 365,348 missing children (between the age of 0 and 17) reports recorded in 2020, only 30,396 – or about 8% – were still active cases at the end of the year.
(Good luck explaining that to a QAnoner, though.)
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember being fingerprinted in elementary school. Is this still common practice in USA?
I don't think it ever was?
It may be regional. Not sure how their marketing worked. See "Ident-A-Kid" (https://identakid.com/)
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That's what I was thinking -- what incentive does the FBI have to develop this?
I know it seems like a long shot, but could they potentially be trying to do good and help people?
The US doesn't have a good track record in that regard, even towards its own people.
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I remember being fingerprinted in elementary school. Is this still common practice in USA?
What? Did you ever find out what the fingerprints were used for? This is like taking a DNA sample from child when they're born nowadays, it seems harmless now, but we can already see companies using this kind of data maliciously.
In the US it was very common. My kids did it at school in the 90s.
The point was that if your child goes missing, you have their fingerprints available so they can be used in investigations. In our case, the fingerprints were given to us to take home in case they were ever needed. At the time I didn't think to ask if the police kept a record for themselves, but I doubt it (just because local PD wasn't very organized).
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#27It says:
We're sorry... The request has been blocked.
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#28Initially I thought that it would be satire, then I recognized the domain. I have a weird feeling about this, but can't put a finger on it.
There's no way of saying it without sounding sarcastic that yes, this feels like a scam, if not just a bad idea. The fact that they have to come out and say, "no, we're not storing pictures of your kids" doesn't help. The idea of the app is sound, and one would hope you could trust the Federal Government with such information (like they don't have it already), but the iOS6 era screenshots and verbiage feel like a real scam.
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