Israelis debate biometric ID cards
Israeli citizens are debating whether biometric identity cards are a good idea or not, according to a Haaretz.com news report.
The Israeli legislature passed the law last October, days before dissolving for the elections. The legislation requires the state to collect the fingerprints of both index fingers from every resident of the country, along with a standard photograph.
Much of the reluctance is that the identity program would establishing a centralized database with biometric data on every citizen and legal resident of the country.
The government says the new card are needed because the current ones are too easy to forge. Human rights groups oppose the law, fearing that the data would not be properly protected and leak on to the Internet.
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