Israel Moves Toward a National Biometric Database

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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Re:You would think that they would learn from hist

[abstract daddy]

I can't believe this shit got modded +5 insightful. Oh wait, this is Slashdot, the home of rabid antisemitism.

This has fuckall to do with Nazis forcing Jews to wear yellow stars. Every citizen of Israel, which is a Jewish country, will be included in the database, which is being built by the aforementioned Jewish country. For the life of me I cannot understand how this is perfectly equal to Nazis forcing Jews in Germany to wear yellow stars right before genociding them. But hey, the complete absence of logic hasn't stopped leftists before from spouting stream-of-consciousness bullshit.

Re:You would think that they would learn from hist

[rohan972]

Dude, it's not the Israeli Jews who will suffer here. It's the indigenous population. The Palestinians.

WTF? Go get a date on that wailing wall, then come back with who are the colonists and who are indigenous. You'd need to have no knowledge of history at all to claim that Israel is a colonist state of Jews invading someone else's homeland, unless you're going to claim that everyone in the world who is not living where there ancestors where 3000+ years ago is not in their homeland.

Yes, I'm aware that Palestinians have been there for some time, it's a difficult situation.