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Perhaps it's because I'm a parent, but I couldn't disagree more. Drunk driving is antisocial and dangerous behavior. In this case, the presumption that someone engaging in it is more likely to commit crime down the road has proven completely true.

There are things that scare me about the future, but this is not one of them.

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For some reason, you seem to be assuming that the government only collects biometrics for "antisocial and dangerous behavior" and is only using them to protect others.

One as a citizen has visibility - or can have visibility- into the government's working, you DO vote, right?

Private citizens and companies, not so much.

No, I'm reacting to a complaint about a specific event. If there's a complaint to be raised about data collection for something innocuous, raise that instead. In this particular instance, I'm glad this horrible person was tagged like an animal and collected, saving a young girl's life.

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