> On Feb 5, 8:37 pm, "Mortimer" privacy.net> wrote:

>> If I could be confident that the data would *only* be used for mAnatching
>> against wanted criminals (eg fingerprints taken from crime scenes) and that
>> it would be held very securely instead of being lost in transit between
>> government/police, then I'd have no qualms about the data being retained
>> indefinitely.

>
> And while our current government might be trustworthy an competent,
> would you be willing to risk your information to a future government
> that could use the information for anything.
>
> Fortunately the train doesn't have such silly restrictions. Yet.