A lot of good it does, when more and more states are requiring fingerprints to get a driver's license. The various governments want the data, and are simply taking it from a progressively-larger set of people. It's obviously not equal in severity, but the "First they came..." poem certainly applies here. They are simply rolling this out in stages: first in the most "sensitive" spots, such as airports. Then it will be most federal buildings, or other "high-security" locations. Then it will be routine.
Giving your fingerprints is already pretty mandatory for all the French citizens, and now the government is pushing for face recognition to be used as the default identification system... (meanwhile, centralized databases on all the citizens were illegal just a couple decades ago !)
It's amazing how governments exempt themselves from laws. GDPR for the rest of Europe, but for the governments, privacy does not matter. I'm not saying it makes sense to apply the same rules letter-for-letter (gov't has to have _something_), but even the same spirit would do.
