This really smacks of another step towards a police state in the name of fighting terrorism.
Every passenger photographed and fingerprinted on every journey? It really is nothing short of tracking teh movements of the populace. How long is it likely to be before we're bening asked to justify our reasons for making the trip? Then it's travel permits.
Sound paranoid? It does to me, too, but then I never thought I'd be getting fingerprinted every time I wanted to fly to London. Read that bit about the Home Office saying 'it would not be responsible in “satisfying the Information Commissioner that the right data protection is in place". and that it would "use its powers...to push the proposals through." In other words, sod what we want this sub-agency of the Home Office can do what it likes to our freedoms with impunity.
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