Most people buy cars without ever being asked to be fingerprinted. I don't think that's really on them so much as it is on the crazy dealer.
I don't understand why you call f.lux's inability to get in the App Store "drama." The reason it can't get in the app store is really simple: Apple provides no public API to do what that app does, and Apple prohibits the use of private API in the app store. It wouldn't matter who was doing it, Apple wouldn't allow it regardless.
So I really see no connection between being unable to get f.lux into the App Store and making the news for refusing to allow a BMW dealer to take fingerprints while buying a car.
I don't understand why you call f.lux's inability to get in the App Store "drama." The reason it can't get in the app store is really simple: Apple provides no public API to do what that app does, and Apple prohibits the use of private API in the app store. It wouldn't matter who was doing it, Apple wouldn't allow it regardless.
So I really see no connection between being unable to get f.lux into the App Store and making the news for refusing to allow a BMW dealer to take fingerprints while buying a car.