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Why do toddlers have to provide fingerprints to get Trusted Traveler status?

Old Aug 1, 2017, 3:10 pm
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Exclamation Why do toddlers have to provide fingerprints to get Trusted Traveler status?

Can somebody please explain to me WHY a toddler has to provide fingerprints to get TT status?
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Old Aug 1, 2017, 3:17 pm
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Originally Posted by petaluma1
Can somebody please explain to me WHY a toddler has to provide fingerprints to get TT status?
Why not?
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Old Aug 1, 2017, 6:05 pm
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Originally Posted by CodeAdam10
Why not?
How many toddlers have committed crimes? For that matter, why pay for a "background" check on a toddler? Gives me the Big Brother creeps to know that there are people who so willingly hand over their child's biometrics to the government.
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Old Aug 1, 2017, 6:13 pm
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Have you seen a little kid on an ipad? Scary! Retina scan the little monsters.
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Old Aug 1, 2017, 7:37 pm
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How about a saliva DNA test?
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Old Aug 1, 2017, 9:54 pm
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My daughter had her prints scanned for GE since that is part of the process for using the kiosks. I think she was 4 at the time.
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Old Aug 2, 2017, 8:22 am
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Government conditioning them young to willingly submit biometrics.
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Old Aug 2, 2017, 9:34 am
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Originally Posted by seawolf
Government conditioning them young to willingly submit biometrics.
Bingo!
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