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EU top court upholds ruling on fingerprints for ID cards (www.dw.com)

submitted 7 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] MilderRichter@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

A “database of fingerprints” would only contain checksums

that's the case for fingerprint readers in phones/laptops

But does that also apply to prints collected for government ID cards?