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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts) Mon Sep 16, 2013, 12:36 AM Sep 2013

Identity Theft: Biometric ID database threatens privacy in Israel

RT ·Published on Sep 15, 2013

Getting your fingerprints used to mean you were suspected of being up to no good. In Israel, though, it's now being used to combat ID fraud, but not everyone is happy that the government is planning to hold biometric information on every citizen.

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Identity Theft: Biometric ID database threatens privacy in Israel (Original Post) DeSwiss Sep 2013 OP

new iphone, anyone? BelgianMadCow Sep 2013 #1

No need to tatoo your IBM# on you any more! BillyRibs Sep 2013 #2

Reduce everybody down to a unique DNA code. Downwinder Sep 2013 #3

BelgianMadCow

(5,379 posts)

1. new iphone, anyone?

Reply to DeSwiss (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2013, 04:18 AM

Sep 2013

like I saw posted on DU, who needs creative speculation about "chipping everybody" to track us when everybody is carrying a smartphone AND it's reading your fingerprints?

BillyRibs

(787 posts)

2. No need to tatoo your IBM# on you any more!

Reply to DeSwiss (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2013, 04:18 AM

Sep 2013

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)

3. Reduce everybody down to a unique DNA code.

Reply to BillyRibs (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 16, 2013, 07:54 AM

Sep 2013

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