Israeli Knesset Approves Biometric Database Law

Lord Duran writes "The Israeli Knesset approved a bill that will require every Israeli citizen to submit a visual scan of their face and a biometric scan of their fingerprints to a national database. I, for one, fail to see how this is anything but evil. TFA mentions the Israeli census was breached — I'd like to point out, for comparison, that it's still freely available on your peer-to-peer file sharing network of choice."

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Good quote

[Anonymous Coward]

FTA: "...that the system would be kept as confidential as any banking website"

Why does that not make me feel better about this?

Re:How do you change your password?

[NoYob]

Same problem with all biometrics.

What happens when the system is compromised? How do I change my password?

Or worse, what if Osama Bin Laden (or any other terorist) get's to insert his bio information into an Israeli citizen's profile? Now, Bin Laden has a valid Bio-Informatic ID in Israel. If he shaved off his beard, I couldn't tell him apart. It's been years since I've seen a photo of him. He'd get away with being Bernie Horowitz.

Re:It's Israel

[rand0mbits]

You call them terrorists, they call them freedom fighters. It's a matter of perspective. Get some.

I think you're a bit confused. There is nothing stopping a person from being a freedom fighter and a terrorist at the same time. The first term refers to why they're doing what they're doing. The second refers to how they do it. So while Hamas may (it's rather questionable. but so are many other things) be fighting for freedom, how they do it (purposefully targeting, attacking and executing unarmed civilians) makes them terrorists.