Florida County requires Fingerprints to Sell Used Video Games... LINK

[Blackhatjack]

At first banks got in on the 'fingerprint' requirement to cash a check you received from their account holder. Now, I am just wondering how long it will be before all of us will have to provide fingerprints, retinal scans, etc. to buy and sell food, gasoline, and other necessaries. There don't appear to be any limits to the amount of personal information we are being forced to give up in order to live in the US today. The right to privacy is almost non-existent. And once our personal information is retrieved from us, there is a good chance that it will be lost or accidentally 'exposed' creating a further risk of identity theft.


http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/06/florida-county-goes-gaga-for-used-video-games/

"From the Broward-Palm Beach New Times:

I'm in line at Gamestop the other day, breaking down and finally buying the much-hated NCAA Football '09, when I hear the clerk ask the guy in front of me for his fingerprints. He's returning a game, and the clerk breaks out some kind of form. He swipes his thumb across an ink pad stuck to the counter and then puts his mark in the appropriate box.

What the deuce? "The sheriff's office has been making us do it," the clerk told me. "People hate it."

"Reporter Eric Barton goes on to say:

Broward County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Kayla Concepcion said the new requirement comes straight from the Florida Legislature, which enacted a law on October 1 of last year that treated video games like second-hand goods sold at pawn shops. Now any store buying used video games has to collect the thumb prints, along with a bunch of other personal info about the seller."

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[hobbit709]

1. Screw that

I'd be selling on craigslist or ebay.

[Tempest]

4. You'll get more for your games using Craigslist and eBay as well

I went to Gamestop with some old games and they would only give me $3 - $4 a game.

I posted them on Craigslist and sold them for $10 each.

Same thing with the DVDs I wanted to get rid of. Gamestop only wanted to give me $2 a DVD, sold them for $7 on Craigslist.

[thunder rising]

2. The fucking banks charge $5 for the privilege of them honoring their own paper.

Just a fucking scam.

[Towlie]

3. Sorry, I don't buy it - at least not yet.

The are a few sites on the Web reporting this story, but every single one of them seems to refer back to that one single story from the http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2009/05/used_video_games_fingerprint_gamestop_florida.php">New Times of Broward-Palm Beach, which I never heard of before now, even though I live here in South Florida.

Maybe it's true, but for now I'll take it with a grain of salt.

[MADem]

5. Call the GAMESTOP and ask them---that should either bust the story or verify it. NT