OT: Biometric ID

[Orr Dunkelman]

1. I am a big supporter of biometric ID cards. However, no database is
needed for them.
2. Even if you decide that a biometric database is needed (and it is not),
fingerprints and face images are the erong biometrics to use. You want
something which requires your consent for being sampled (best option) or at
least your knowledge that you were sampled. For example, the ise of iris
codes.

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בתאריך 16 במרץ 2015 09:04, ‏"Oleg Goldshmidt" <pub at goldshmidt.org> כתב:

> 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?
>
> --
> Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org
>
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