Drivers who get stopped by certain officers in England and Wales will now have their fingerprints taken and checked against a database of over 6.5 million prints. While officers promise that the prints will not be kept on record, instead only used to see if the person has warrants or other infractions, this is still raising concerns for breaches in civil liberties. The program will continue to propagate throughout the UK for the coming two months. Click here for the BBC’s full story. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/archive-4.gif)
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