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Unfortunately, that's not how governments around the world require it right now. Estonia for its e-citizenship program, as well as pretty much all countries req
by mtgx 11y ago
Unfortunately, that's not how governments around the world require it right now. Estonia for its e-citizenship program, as well as pretty much all countries requiring a fingerprint for passports store the fingerprints in their own centralized database (that also get shared with other nations).
I switched my phone fingerprint to another finger for my phone as soon as I signed-up for a passport.
- DanielBMarkham 11y agoWow. So a piece of plastic the bank gives you with mostly arbitrary numbers on it is better protected than your own fingerprints, which you're stuck with for life? Good grief.
- arviewer 11y agoIn the Netherlands we had a passport with fingerprint, and all data stored by the state. Luckily, this was reversed, and now the fingerprint is only stored in the passport itself. Well, that's what I hope, as the fingerprint needs to be stored temporarily for the time to create the passport. Better, if you don't leave the EU, you can use an identity card that doesn't have the fingerprint. I was lucky enough to have an old passport that just spanned the period in which the fingerprint was stored centrally. Now I have an ID card, but one time in the future I will leave the EU, and then I have to get a password...