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Originally Posted by GeoffC
biometric systems would have to be initiated at birth, but then who would certify the identity of parents ....
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Why would you need to? It's the individual's identity being set, not their relationship to their parents.
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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
What Geoff said. It's a hole/bucket situation - how do you prove the person you're taking the fingerprints/retina scan/biometric measure of choice from is who they say they are?
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If the card itself has the ID data,
and a copy of the biometric that can be verified real-time,
and is tamper-proof, a biometric scan will verify the owner of the card, and the card will provide the data. This also eliminates the need to keep a vast, Big-Brotherish database deep in a mountain or something, to hold all that data... it's all in the card, retrieved when ID is verified.
The keys are the card, which must be secure and trusted, and the ability to compare biometric data real-time to the card.