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Israel Moves Toward a National Biometric Database

Posted by kdawson on from the breaking-ground-for-england dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Israeli's government has approved the creation of a biometric database which would contain fingerprints and facial photos of all Israeli citizens. If the bill becomes law — and it is at an early stage — the biometric information of each citizen would be embedded in their passport and national ID card. Israeli citizens would be required by law to submit to biometric testing upon request by government employees, soldiers, and policemen, so that their biometric info can be compared to the info embedded in their ID card / passport. The declared purpose of the bill is to combat forgery of passports and ID cards, and also to aid identification 'in cases of a mass disaster.' The bill was approved over objections from civil rights groups and the Israeli Bar. The article notes that no other democratic country has a comprehensive biometric database of all citizens."

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  1. Argh! Comma! by pagewalker · · Score: 2, Funny

    > The implications for privacy and surveillance, are not insignificant.

    Tarnation! I relocated a parenthetical and left a comma in!

    Ah, well. Maybe I can captain a starship now.

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  2. Re:You would think that they would learn from hist by The+Clockwork+Troll · · Score: 1, Funny

    What do you mean impossible?

    If you read the article, the Nazi's RFID tags are clearly shaped like swastikas, duh.

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  3. Re:What about dual citizenship Jews? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How should I know, why don't you ask him?

  4. Re:You would think that they would learn from hist by ScreamingCactus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Godwin's law on the first post!

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  5. Re:You would think that they would learn from hist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    slashdot called. they said stay indoors. read more slashdot.

  6. Re:I am an Israeli by abstract+daddy · · Score: 1, Funny

    how can you explain giving a twelfth of your life away to an organisation obsessed with harassing, repressing, dividing, locking in, shutting out, abusing and killing people for the sole reason that they lived in your country before your parents/grand-parents arrived and drove them off their land?

    You left out the part where IDF soldiers open a portal to Hell and send them Palestinian babies in exchange for gold. Then they high five each other.

  7. Re:You would think that they would learn from hist by MrNaz · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's because they had an entire organization dedicated to enacting resolutions against Israel.

    The UN is dedicated to enacting resolutions against Israel?

    Huh?

    Victim complex, anyone?

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