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The UAE Claims To Hold the Worlds Largest Biometric Database
another random user writes "The United Arab Emirates holds the largest biometric database in the world, the Emirates Identity Authority has announced. The population register of Emirates ID has over 103 million digital fingerprints and over 15 million digital facial recognition records, which includes multiple records of each UAE resident, and digital signatures as of October 11, senior officials said. Dr. Ali Al Khoury, Director General of Emirates ID, said the authority has submitted an official application to the World Record Academy to recognize this record. Asked about the confirmation of the authority's claims about the world record, an official spokesman of the authority told Gulf News on Sunday: 'We have made worldwide surveys and inquiries with the similar official authorities and agencies of the world governments holding such databases and confirmed that our database is the largest. The World Record Academy also confirmed to us that no other government or authority has made a similar claim for such a record,' he said."
no other government or authority has made a similar claim for such a record
Other governments, that may be sued for doing this, are just not advertising their databases.
Now the Dept. of Homeland Security will think it is a contest. More rights violations in 3, 2, ...
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I KNEW those amiga fanbois were up to something! All this time their precious UAE was silently gathering damning personal biometric information on their users, hoping to shame them away from PCs running windows, MacOS and Linux!
Wait.. what? United Arab Emerates? Not Ubiqutious Amiga Emulator?
Wait, what? Nothing to do with amiga users at all? Sir, do you know what site this is!? Honestly, what is this world coming to!
[Note for the humor deprived: there has been so much bullshit pertaining to the middle east lately that I felt some humor was warranted. Deal with it.]
Not to mention, It seems it's completely NOT the largest.
http://www.infowars.com/indias-gargantuan-biometric-database-raises-big-questions/
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In this case, it's also not just the size that counts, but also how they use it.
I am officially gone from