I am comfortable with the idea, despite being a "lefty" or "not-righty" (I find these labels out of touch with today's realities anyway). But that could be because I grew up with it. In Greece we have had a national fingerprint database since before I was born, and I still remember going proudly to the police station to be fingerprinted and have my first national ID card made as soon as I turned 14.

And we did have a totalitarian government for 7 years (67-74, the junta years), which hunted "lefties" and persecuted anyone that disagreed with them. But the fingerprints database and the National ID cards played no role in that; they were not required for the purpose.

Neither is fingerprint or DNA evidence sufficient by itself to convict anyone; it places them at a crime scene, sure, but does not pinpoint the time of that presence. In a notorious serial killer hunt in that same period of the junta, which led to the wrongful conviction and eventual execution of a local (but innocent) pervert, there was no fingerprint evidence used - indeed, if there were any, it would have served to avoid that travesty of justice.

Sure, I am up for it. I have nothing to hide, and those that would abuse me have bigger weapons at their disposal anyway, like bribery, corruption, amorality, withholding of evidence and so on.