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Reason why biometric ID cards should not be implemented at ANY COST
Biometric documents (ID cards and passports) will work fine for organisations where everyone concerned is on the database and every point of transaction has equipment to read these biometric documents.
Nationally it is virtually impossible to satisfy both these conditions and hence these biometric systems will fail by making bad problems worse. For example criminals will be tempted to use fakes of these documents where there is no equipment to read them. So rather than deterring this system will boost identity fraud which will be even more complex to solve.
This shows why these ID cards should not be implemented at any cost.
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