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Fingerprint in the Bedroom, Terrorism and Bribery: Horror Scenarios of the Biometric Database
Sunday, March 5, 2017
Fingerprint in the Bedroom, Terrorism and Bribery: Horror Scenarios of the Biometric DatabaseTheMarker
March 3, 2017

From
locating Israelis abroad for terrorism mattters, through information thefts by criminals to betraying partners: what do opponents to the biometric database law fear from? ... One of the opponents is Prof. Eli Bihm, head of the Technion Cyber Center [and a faculty member of Technion CS]  "Imagine a situation where a fingerprint is found by the husband in the couple's bedroom. He turns to a private investigator, who bribes a policeman to check for him the fingerprint in the database. Why should there be an option like that?" Biham wonders. They did a Pilot but no one has ever asked to examine the outcome risk of the datatbase or what should be done to reduce it".

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