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Over 200,000 Danish passports issued with fingerprint error

Posted on April 23, 2019 by pogowasright.org

Well, there are lots of reasons to be concerned about the government collecting and storing biometric data, but here’s a reason I hadn’t considered before:  what if they mix up left and right?  From The Local:

An information storage error related to the passports’ fingerprinting is the source of the issue, local media Frederiksborg Amts Avis writes.

The passports were issued in the Frederikssund, Gribskov and Allerød municipalities, according to the report.

Read more on The Local (Denmark). The system was provided by data firm Kube Data, whose director does not think the error will pose much trouble for the public.

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