License, registration - and fingerprints, please?

Once again, privacy and convenience take a back seat to costs and bigger government. Thankfully, it's in the UK, not here…

Yet.

According to a recent Breitbart.com article, traffic coppers in England and Wales are testing a high-tech new program to match motorists' fingerprints - right at the site of roadside detention - against a database of over 6.5 million prints of both offenders and the innocent. It's estimated that such technology is likely to save the Bobbies the equivalent of around $4.2 million every year.

This newest invasion - er, innovation represents the latest in a long list of high-tech gadgets British police have at their disposal to enforce their laws. Already, they have the most advanced and comprehensive DNA analysis on Earth, their government claims. Some 5.2% of their population is currently DNA-recorded.

They also claim to be the world leader in license-plate recognition - technology invented in Britain and currently used there to track terrorists and criminals…

But not the innocent, of course.

I wonder: Who's judging such things in now-voyeuristic Great Britain? Guilt and innocence, I mean? Everybody's guilty of something, you know. A casual dalliance, speeding on a country road, taking a long lunch-break…

And apparently, now it's all on camera in the good 'ol UK. According to the Breitbart piece, everyone there is caught on camera in one form or another approximately 300 times a day.