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The Israeli Knesset has voted in favour of a bill for a compulsory biometric database of all citizens.
The Biometrics Database Law passed the Knesset 40 votes in favour to 11 against.
A big row over privacy forced the bill back to the drawing board. This led to the idea of a two-year trial rather than a full-blown introduction. Three months before the end of that period ministers will decide to adopt or ditch the technology.
For the first two years the scheme is voluntary. After that all citizens wanting an identification document will have their fingerprints taken along with a picture of their face. Electronic ID cards will contain a chip carrying two fingerprints and a digital picture.
Ex-interior minister Meir Sheetrit insisted the database would be safe "as any banking site" and the cards impossible to forge.
Sounding a bit Spinal Tap, he said: "If the databases of the Mossad, the Shin Bet and the Prime Minister's Office are currently protected at a level of 10, then this one will be protected at a level of 11."
He said there would be two databases - one containing names and one containing biometric identifiers, the Jerusalem Post reports. One member of the Knesset claimed he already had supposedly private information from a recent Israeli census which he'd found on the internet. ®
COMMENTS
"as any banking site"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7032779/
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2008/11/05/bank-of-ireland-loses-customer-data-on-memory-stick/
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.co.uk/news/article/0,289142,sid180_gci1308799,00.html
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/bofa_laptop.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9959976-7.html
And on, and on, and on...
But don't worry, you've got nothing to hide, have you? A lesson I thought anyone Jewish would well understand.
NO!
How long before their agents within the British establishment force it upon us?
Refuse to give permission.
Moving ever closer
They've been behaving a long time now like they learnt how to control people about,oh seventy, eighty years ago. Presumably they'll be measuring noses soon?
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