The person allowing his fingerprints to be used will have a lot of difficult questions to answer when being interviewed by law enforcement.

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gruez 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Uber already requires driver licenses and (presumably) banking information for payouts. The drivers page for US implies the verification is done in-person as well. All of this makes it pretty easy for the police to identify the driver, and hard for the driver to wriggle out and claim his identity was stolen. I'm not sure how adding fingerprints helps here.

	▲	buellerbueller 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not sure either, but it is standard practice in many areas of employment. Want to be a teacher? You're gonna be fingerprinted. Perhaps it is a legacy of the days when different databases didn't talk to one another, i.e., drivers licensure and criminal conviction were siloed off from one another.