> You cannot easily imagine blocking a whole country's access to international travel because of a data leak. You cannot do that, not because of the problems f

> You cannot easily imagine blocking a whole country's access to international travel because of a data leak. You cannot do that, not because of the problems for those people, but because it would break trust in the system. It would become apparent how unsafe it is to keep fingerprints stored digitally in a central database. That would be a bigger problem, worldwide. People would demand to get rid of these databases, and I bet many intelligence services would not like that.