The explicit word was not said, but every sentence in the report screams - amateurism * Prof. Omar Tana, College of Administration: "The database should not have been established in the first place"
Now it is not concerned citizens or even concerned jurists. State Comptroller Judge (retired) Yosef Haim Shapira, today published an audit report on the subject of national biometric documentation - the test period from which it appears that the project failed miserably even if he did not use the explicit word, the term "amateurs" screams in every paragraph of the report.
"For years, the State of Israel has been dealing with forgery of identity cards, passports and transit cards, as well as phenomena of "identity theft". In December 2009, the Knesset passed a law according to which Israeli residents will be issued identification documents with electronic chips that will allow the identity of their holders to be verified through biometric information that will be included in the chip - a photo of the facial features and photos of two fingerprints. It was also determined that the biometric information will be stored not only in the certificates themselves but also in a central database."
"Due to the controversy that arose regarding the establishment of the biometric database, it was determined that there will be a trial period of two years to examine, among other things, the necessity of the existence of a biometric database, the information that must be kept in it and the manner in which the database is used.
In the months of January-July 2014, the State Comptroller's Office inspected the actions taken by the Population and Immigration Authority and the Biometric Database Management Authority in the first year of the probationary period. Completion tests were conducted in the months of September 2014 - January 2015.
Here are some of the main shortcomings:
- The lack of information and data about the phenomena of identity theft and impersonation
- Use of a temporary biometric comparison system during the test period
- During the test period, the fingerprint scanners were replaced, which initially had doubts about the quality of their performance. However, fingerprints were taken from 430,000 residents in a scanner, which, as mentioned, the Population Authority and the Authority for the Management of the Biometric Database deemed unsuitable and urgently needed to be replaced
- Failure to examine the alternatives to the biometric database and the scope of the information that must be kept in it: (a) The questioning alternative - the purpose of the questioning is to verify the identity of the applicants for the smart certificates in order to prevent the issuance of a smart certificate to imposters. The questioning in the current way is not satisfactory (the list of questions is limited). Until January 2015 it was not examined at all; (b) Biometric alternatives - as mentioned after the scanner was replaced, it was made clear that the information collected using the previous scanner cannot be used for the purpose of examining this alternative; (c) The alternative to the file method - more than a year after the supervisor of the biometric applications decided that the file method, which was designed to maintain privacy during the test, would be tested, no such test was done.
The State Comptroller warned on April 14, 2015, in a letter he sent to the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior at the time, that the audit found substantial deficiencies in examining the necessity of the biometric database.
The law stated that by June 28.6.2015, XNUMX, the Knesset will decide whether the test period has successfully ended with regard to the biometric database or whether it is necessary to extend the test period or cancel the biometric database. The State Comptroller's report on national biometric documentation - the test period, will help all concerned to make an informed decision on this issue.
Referring to the Interior Ministry's claims about the ease with which existing identity cards can be forged, the auditor wrote that this is a reason for smart identity cards, but not necessarily for a biometric database attached to them. As mentioned, the ministry has not been able to come up with data on the forgery of identity cards in recent years.
Prof. Omer Tana, a law lecturer at the College of Administration, says in a conversation with the Hidaan site that it was forbidden to build such a database from the beginning, and that it was possible to be content with comparing the data against the chip. "I was a member of a group of law lecturers from all over the country who warned even before the decision to establish the database was made that it was unnecessary. There is no such database in any democratic country," he added.
Following the State Comptroller's report published today, Prof. Tana said: "There is no point in going into the details of the implementation, it was not needed in the first place."
The ombudsman for the movement for digital rights, attorney Jonathan Klinger said today that: "The extension of the biometric experiment is a fraud on the public. This is a crude attempt designed to obscure the difficult record of the results of the failed biometric experiment and to hide them, especially against the background of the State Comptroller's report that will be published today and the experts' report that we published. The government must present the experiment and deal with them, however bad they may be. If it is necessary to review the results and make a decision based on them, there is no problem in doing so now, based on the actions conducted in two years of failed activity, without continuing the introduction of citizens into the biometric database. We call on the members of the Knesset not to take part in this process and to immediately stop the biometric experiment in the relevant Knesset committee or in the Knesset plenum, which are supposed to discuss the issue."
The advisory committee for the biometric database project recommended tonight (Tuesday) to remove the fingerprints from the database, and not to extend its trial period. From the disclosed documents it appears that the professional committee determined that there is no room for an extension, and that the database must include only facial images. However, despite these warnings, Interior Minister Silvan Shalom decided to extend the experiment by nine months.
More of the topic in Hayadan:
Is the biometric database secure, as reassured by the Biometric Database Authority, or is it unnecessary, as the movement for digital rights claims
What is the biometric database project?
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In orderly countries there is no enemy who sits in parliament and receives a salary and declares and actually works against the state. And he also has helpers from home who warn of a boycott and call all over the world for a boycott and warn the country of all its citizens and oppose the nationality law and call for the right of return and for the infiltrators to stay and for "family reunification." And they call for democracy and turn to the High Court to cancel every democratic law, and oppose a referendum and go out to lecture all over the world against Israel and in favor of a boycott. And there is no legal system that actually controls. And there is no media that admires, justifies and praises murderous terrorists and goes out to lecture all over the world against Israel and in favor of a boycott. And there are no foreign associations that receive funding from hostile countries to destroy Israel from the inside step by step.
For those who are unable to separate between governmental corruption and their political opinions, let them ask God for another spoonful of reason. A national project like the reservoir that is handled by incompetents is governmental corruption.
Everyone in power becomes corrupt after a while, so in orderly countries the ruler is replaced after two terms.
Pazar
True, it is known that calling a response that refers to entire populations as traitors, collaborators with Nazis, and terrorists disgusting, is the definition of disgust.
Who are these traitors you are talking about exactly? How do you know I support them?
What exactly makes me a traitor?
The normative current among the Israeli Jewish public is people who call people traitors, terrorists and Nazi helpers, and seek to hang people (as you indirectly imply)? do you really think so? Does this seem normal to you? If you are right the situation is really serious, so I hope I am right when I estimate that you are part of a psychotic minority, because if I am wrong then no sane person has anything to look for in the State of Israel.
Am I extreme left now? On what basis do you base this assertion?
You don't even know what it means for a person to be left-handed, and it really amuses me (although it also makes me sad), so you know what, I'll add another term to you so you can hate me for not understanding what the term even means. Here, I am also a Marxist.
Tell me by the way, who is not a leftist with you? Are you one of those for whom Benjamin Netanyahu is also a leftist?
Who said I can't stand the country? I love the country, and many of its citizens. That's why I want to spend the rest of my life in it with my family and daughters, and maybe even my grandson one day, and see it prosper.
What I don't want is to see it become a country where people are unable to live because they are unable to support themselves financially, a country where it is not possible to walk in the streets or fields in peace and safety, a country where there is no education, a country flooded with hatred, a country where different communities fight each other , a country that discriminates against entire communities, a country where there are those who are disadvantaged because they were lucky enough to be born into a certain community and not another, a country where there is a superior race whose rights precede those of all others, and I really do not want to see us become Nazi Germany 2.0. For some reason, for you, these are values that make me a traitor. What does that say about you?
What well do you imagine I spit into or drink from? Are you once again having dreams about me, and imagining that you know something about me?
Walking bullshit
Your comment is just as disgusting as you. Which is not surprising.
By the way, those traitors you support and rely on would hang a traitor like you in the city square... but you probably already know that.
What is not strange considering a creature like you is that in your eyes the rot is the normative current, the majority and what is considered the accepted opinion among the Israeli Jewish public.
It is not strange since you are not Jewish and an extreme leftist..
That's why I will ask you to fly away from the country you hate so much. Please 🙂
(You have to be a masochist to enjoy the water that comes from a well into which you spit. And you are probably quite a masochist. And dirty.)
the censored
Well done. Really disgusting response. Kudos to you for being able to present such a good example of the rot in Israeli society. I'm really impressed.
For Herzl, the real injustice and unbelievable crime is the subversive terrorist fifth brother-in-law who sits in the Knesset and the gang of Jewish traitorous capos who help them boycott and destroy Israel.
rationalize. All over the world there is a biometric certificate and soon you won't be able to go to Berlin without one. Just so that your fellow terrorists can more easily forge IDs.
The problem is that the entire government system is corrupt in its entirety. Indeed, there are honest civil servants, and I hope they are the majority, but there are many who got to their positions with the help of protection and without qualifications, and there are just corrupt ones. There is an expression in English that in a free translation sounds "one rotten apple in the basket rots all the apples".
The problem is that even when there is a glaring failure, such as the trip of the Prime Minister and his family to Japan at the expense of the state with the important goal of allowing his friend to open a casino there, there is no investigation, no investigation, and there will be no prosecution for what was allegedly a breach of trust. Maybe the state auditor will write a few lines.
So if this is the atmosphere in the government system, what do you expect from a small and forgotten project?
If you trust police officers, politicians, government officials, terrorists and criminals, and are ready to have them follow your every step in life, you will agree to biometrics. If not, don't do it!! Shin Bet personnel and others will not enter biometrics, think about why!
Do not agree to a biometric certificate, and certainly not to a database, this database can ruin your life and there is no way back from it!! They deceive the elderly and people with low intelligence and convince them while forcing the employees to lie and sell it to people with ridiculous temptations. This is a corrupt deal between politicians and companies that produce,
Go to court if necessary and do not agree to give any fingerprints and/or face to anyone and certainly not to the database, see you have been warned!!
The leftists are against the reservoir, because it will prevent the infiltration of Arabs from Arab countries and Eritreans and Sudanese, the importation of Bedouin women, forgery and free medical treatment for infiltrators and Arabs and the turning of Israel into a failed Arab state and the flight of the leftists to Berlin after helping to destroy Israel.
Israel is blessed with one of the best computer scientists in the world; Some of them bothered to present a (reasoned) opinion on the repository and its alternatives.
Decision-makers - who probably find it difficult to understand - can rely on another "scientific" fact:
Meir Shetrit = 1,170 = suspected of accepting bribes