[simion314]

That is fine if it would be the same, but your biometric data is stored in a database, I would be fine with scan the passport , scan the person, check if it matches, if all is fine delete the biometric data and not put it in a database.

If there is a good reason to keep this data in a database let me know.

[OrgNet]

How can they compare your appearance to a picture if they don't keep your picture on-file?

[simion314]

The passport is in your hand, you place it on the table where it can be scanned and compared with your face. If they have your face in the database can you travel without a physical passport?

[OrgNet]

So you could just use a fake passport? Yeah to tell you the truth, I'm not sure why a passport is required... Just like driver licenses and tag registrations, they have all the information on their computers.

[simion314]

>So you could just use a fake passport?

Why do you think so? If a human can detect a fake passport why a computer scanner can't detect it?

It even makes sense to do it like this: 1 the passport includes a picture of you but it could include a hash of your biometric face

2 you go at the checkpoint, put the passport in a scanner and your face is also photographed by a camera, the sash is generated and compared, then the hash is deleted, the airport people just care that the passport is real(they can check serial codes or chips if present in the passport, check the other security areas of the passport) and the person using the passport is the one in the passport.

Airports or air transport companies should not be in bussiness of collecting bio-metric data. If NSA or the government of a country wants to create such a database they should propose a law for it, when you get or renew your ID card,passport then you would be added to the national database because such is the law not because you are forced to chose between getting in the plane faster or some unpleasant alternative way/

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