The European Court of Justice ruled having fingerprints on ID cards was legal under EU privacy laws. The benefits of having such a system were key to preventing identity theft, it said.
A “database of fingerprints” would only contain checksums. They can be used to verify the result of a reading but not to get the whole print.
Most of the time they don’t even contain that. The primary checksum is stored only on the ID, which outputs a secondary one, which is matched against a verification checksum produced independently by a reader.
The national database doesn’t need any of those, it holds the person ID numbers and their civil status and stuff like that not how they are verified.
A “database of fingerprints” would only contain checksums. They can be used to verify the result of a reading but not to get the whole print.
Most of the time they don’t even contain that. The primary checksum is stored only on the ID, which outputs a secondary one, which is matched against a verification checksum produced independently by a reader.
The national database doesn’t need any of those, it holds the person ID numbers and their civil status and stuff like that not how they are verified.