An EU data protection supervisor has criticised the use of biometrics as unique identifiers for European citizens, saying fingerprint or DNA identifications can be inaccurate.
"The accuracy of biometrics is overestimated", said Peter Hustinx, one of the European data protection supervisors said on Wednesday (15 March), according to computer magazine C.NET.
Mr Hustinx leads an independent body that monitors EU data protection.
He says that recent proposals to interconnect i...
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