The EU is drafting plans to fingerprint all children. From July 30:
Under laws being drawn up behind closed doors by the European Commission's 'Article Six' committee, which is composed of representatives of the European Union's 25 member states, all children will have to attend a finger-printing centre to obtain an EU passport by June 2009 at the latest.
The apparent reason they are not considering requiring prints from children younger than six is biological; children's prints have not fully developed before that age. It's still unclear how far the resulting data will eventually be shared between member countries.
Meanwhile, the US will expand its fingerprinting program to cover all resident aliens. From July 27:
[Over 11 million] legal permanent residents will soon have to be fingerprinted and photographed before reentering the United States by sea or air, in a significant expansion of a long-stalled border security program, officials announced...
At the bottom of the piece, we are warned to expect full ten-finger print databases to deployed in a few years on a global scale.
The Homeland Security system now collects two fingerprints from each person, but officials hope to pilot a 10-print system next year and deploy it in 2008 or 2009. The smaller system cannot tap into an FBI fingerprint database or include enough data to accurately identify individuals in the entire population, Mocny said. The European Union, Britain and Japan now are looking at fingerprint requirements for their border systems.
It follows that, given the scope of the draft EU rules, technical requirements will force them to require the full ten prints from children.
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