OT: Biometric ID

[E.S. Rosenberg]

The Interior ministry is what is called in the gemara a "shor muad" as
far as their inability to safeguard their databases and our private
data as long as I have the choice I would not trust them and when they
try to force it I would definitely join whatever lawsuit to the
highest court.
In that sense I am very happy my ID still lacks an expiry date so it
will be harder for them to force me to replace it....
Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו

2015-03-16 9:04 GMT+02:00 Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org>:
> Orr Dunkelman <orr.dunkelman at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I personally do not trust the database, its holders, and advise anyone
>> who knows me (including students in my courses) to never go into it.
>
> I wouldn't trust it either, but let's assume for a second that we do,
> and that we see benefits in biometric identification. Does it strike
> anyone else as rather weird that fingerprints have been chosen as the
> basis of it over all the other possible biometrics?
>
> We leave fingerprints on just about everything we touch everywhere we
> go, and they are relatively easy to lift and forge. This seems to me bad
> for both privacy and security. Why wouldn't, say, iris scans be
> preferable?
>
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> Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org
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