Where's my Fingerprint, Dude?

Personal data security breaches continue occurring, and with the trend towards evolving to a digital economy, it's inevitably going to get ever worse. In a recently revealed case "Lost IRS laptop stored employee fingerprints", from the article :

"A laptop computer containing fingerprints of Internal Revenue Service employees is missing, MSNBC.com has learned. The computer was lost during transit on an airline flight in the western United States, IRS spokesman Terry Lemon said. No taxpayer information was on the lost laptop, Lemon said. In all, the IRS believes the computer contained information on 291 employees and job applicants, including fingerprints, names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth."

For the time being the largest accommodator of fingerprints in the world is the U.S.A, and this fact affects anyone that enters the U.S. My point is that, given the unregulated ways of classifying, storing, transfering and processing such type of information would result in its inavitable loss -- bad in-transfer security practices or plain simple negligence.

As we're also heading to a biometrics driven society, the impact of future data security breaches will go way beyond identity theft the way we know it -- lost and stolen voice patterns, DNAs, and iris snapshots would make the headlines. You might also be interested in knowing how close that type of "future scenario" really is given the modest genetic database of 3 million Americans already in existence.

Things are going to get very ugly, and it's not the privacy issue that bothers me, but the aggregation of such type of data at the first place, and who will get to steal it. It's perhaps the perfect market timing moment to start a portable security solution provider, or resell ones know-how under license, of course.