[jonasdegendt]

> places like Thailand that force you to give your biometrics

You're being returned the favor! Anyone that's ever entered the US has had to do the same, and our prints are being stored in a DHS database.

Out of curiosity, did you not need to provide prints to get a passport in the first place? I can't image a single developed country without biometric passports.

[quesera]

A US passport does not require fingerprints or any other biometric data, aside from a photograph.

[octo888]

Fingerprints are not required in the UK to apply for a passport (for UK citizens who didn't apply for naturalisation etc). Biometric doesn't just mean fingerprints.