BBC News reports Malaysia car thieves steal finger
The attackers forced Mr Kumaran to put his finger on the security panel to start the vehicle, bundled him into the back seat and drove off.
But having stripped the car, the thieves became frustrated when they wanted to restart it. They found they again could not bypass [...]

The Washington Post carries a piece by the Republican Senator for Tennessee, Lamarr Alexander: Much as I Hate It, We Need a National ID with the interesting perspective of a conservative who is made deeply uneasy by the idea but cannot find arguments to oppose the spurious cases for “security” and “convenience”.
I have fought [...]

… by removing fingerprints from state ID
As reported by AP and picked up by papers across the South: House votes to eliminate fingerprints on licenses
Republican sponsors say the prints are seldom used by law enforcement and that the print database raises identity theft concerns.

The BBC has a disturbing story showing the constntly shifting boundaries of the database state.
A senior Department of Health civil servant said people would not be able to decide what details are stored.
Critics say this goes against earlier government assurances that patients would be able to veto the information.
The DoH said people can still discuss [...]

With touching faith in the magic of technology Asahi Shimbun online reports, Fingerprints provide passport out of long queues
It’s claimed that pasports with fingerprints encoded onto a chip will allow processing to be speeded-up by abolishing personal checks and replacing them with wholly electronic gates that compare prints with a passport swiped by the traveller.
“While [...]