Want a beer? Give your fingerprints

The Register reports: "The government is funding the roll out of fingerprint security at the doors of pubs and clubs in major English cities" to kerb drink-related violence.

I agree that drink related violence is out of hand in the UK but fingerprinting patrons does not solve the problem. I also disagree with being fingerprinted in general, as your fingerprint is becoming more widely used as an authentication mechanism (in your PDA or laptop, for example). The more places my biometric data is stored, the more risk there is of it being compromised, and once it's compromised I can't change it like I can a password, pass phrase or hardware security token.

Maybe I'm really more concerned with using biometric data as an authentication mechanism than I am against the principle of being fingerprinted when I go to the pub. Either way, bad idea that doesn't solve the problem.