National Security > Malaysia begins fingerprinting all visitors

Okay, so it's not OUR National Security, but makes one wonder when/if OUR country will venture down this road.  How much of the rest of the world will follow suit?

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Under a new trial program, next month the government of Malaysia will begin scanning the fingerprints of all travellers entering and exiting the country to help combat international crime and terrorism; the program, dubbed the Biometric Fingerprint Security System, is aimed at reducing fraud from the current screening method which involves a security official matching a traveller's face to their passport photo; 3 percent of the 24.4 million foreigners who visited Malaysia last year were involved in crimes; biometric scanners are currently being installed at sixty-one of Malaysia's ninety-six ports of entry, and the trial program will begin 1 June