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By gamepolitics
If you want to trade in your used games in Broward County, Florida, prepare to give up your thumbprint.
The Broward-Palm Beach New Times reports that the local sheriff's office began requiring game traders to submit to thumbprinting in October, 2008:
Broward County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Kayla Concepcion said the new requirement comes straight from the Florida Legislature, which enacted a law... 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.
Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).
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