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The European database of asylum seekers' fingerprints has security weaknesses, according to (pdf) Europe's privacy watchdog the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). Eurodac is a Europe-wide fingerprint database of applicants for asylum and illegal immigrants. The EDPS conducted a detailed security audit of the system to …

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  1. TeeCee Gold badge
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    Goverment database has security flaws!

    Other news.

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  2. Jim

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    Sounds more like the procedures for data access are where the flaws are rather than the database itself.

    Wadya know, governments using personal data inappropriately... What TeeCee said.

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