Random fingerprinting to extend to pedestrians

From a story that began the day as affecting only transgressing motorists, the new electronic fingerprinting then seemed to extend to their passengers (see our posting below) and now, according to the BBC might , depending on the police force concerned, also involve ordinary pedestrians, read here. Meanwhile, from David Davis, shadow Home Secretary, so far not a sound! In such a manner does authoritarianism march on, when parliament abdicates its responsibilities and the leader of the main opposition party is solely concerned with his own increasingly slimy image, read here, here, and here.