Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Privacy and Security in Israel

The debate about the future of Israel's nationwide ID management system is really heating up. The future system will include biometrics. The article deals with how the pilot system is to be organized and distributed and how the information is to be stored.

I've really undersold the article, here. There are some fireworks in there (the adverbs especially) as well as links to other news items about the topic.

How vulnerable will Israel's future biometric database be?
(ynet News)