UK police now take roadside fingerprints.

According to this BBC article, police in the UK now have portable fingerprint scanners which can instantly link to a database of 6.5 million prints from any roadside.

The TechDirt blog had an interesting point about stat faults inherent in the program, stating, "The mobile fingerprint scanning device is only 95% accurate and only about 6% of people will be in the group of drivers who give false information and have fingerprints already on file (which has to be the target group). How successful will this scheme really be?"