Comments on: Ben Goldacre on biometrics http://www.bojates.com/words/2007/11/26/ben-goldacre-on-biometrics?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ben-goldacre-on-biometrics 'bo-ja-t-z int., n. 1. a friendly greeting. orig.: London circa 1980. Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:17:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Oliver Ho http://www.bojates.com/words/2007/11/26/ben-goldacre-on-biometrics/comment-page-1#comment-45353 Oliver Ho Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:29:07 +0000 http://www.bojates.com/words/2007/11/26/ben-goldacre-on-biometrics#comment-45353 Reminds me of that case in Malaysia where the thieves cut off a cars owner's finger to steal his biometric. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4396831.stm I've been finger printed every time I go to the US, Hong Kong (since I have a HK ID card) and next time I have to re-enter Japan. One better system is the finger/hand vein system that they have now. Since it would be much hard to re-create your vain structures. As for privacy and crime, well considering the HMRC lost those CDs recently, some criminals are going to be kept busy for a very long time! Yikes! Reminds me of that case in Malaysia where the thieves cut off a cars owner’s finger to steal his biometric.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4396831.stm

I’ve been finger printed every time I go to the US, Hong Kong (since I have a HK ID card) and next time I have to re-enter Japan.

One better system is the finger/hand vein system that they have now. Since it would be much hard to re-create your vain structures.

As for privacy and crime, well considering the HMRC lost those CDs recently, some criminals are going to be kept busy for a very long time! Yikes!

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