Privacy advocates in Israel have seized on an official's failure to completely rule out the possibility of information leaking from the country's experimental biometric population database.”Nobody will sign a security certificate that the database will never leak,” Naama Ben-Zvi, the attorney in charge of biometric applications for the Prime Minister's Office, told the Knesset committee responsible for oversight of the database, reported Haaretz.”But there's no concrete concern that the database will leak. It's a question of a risk management, what you want to achieve versus what you're risking.”Privacy organisation Movement for Digital Rights has slammed the remarks, however.”At this meeting, they put the truth on the table for the first time [as the authority] said on the record that the working assumption was that the entire biometric database would be hackedߪ Now we are not the only ones who are saying thisߪ So why do we need this? Why take the risk?” said the NGO's lawyer, Yehonatan Kleigar.In March, Israeli Interior Minister Arye Dery has said the country's biometric database pilot programme must be extended for another nine months to ensure it is a success.
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