Questions raised over passport ID technology.

Questions raised over passport ID technology. :

"'I'm very concerned because this is, in fact, going to make it easier for identity fraud to occur because all someone has to do is get hold of the passport or other identifying document or hack into a database and then they'll have access to all of that information,' he said."

It's weird how anyone who questions a new policy or prcedure is called a "civil libertarian". Really weird. I know we cannot live in the past, but before, if we could foresee problems with protocol or new methods we were called "helpful". It used to be good for people to find the pitfalls in thigs. I remember reading on the Net earlier this year that the Germans had worked out a digital photo of an eye will pass an iris test and the lovely little Gummi bears can be melted and will make good fake fingerprint casts which will get by a fingerprint machine. Add that to the fact we have now had the issue raised that this biometric data will be stored on a computer, then yes, it's a very real point. People can and do hack systems and people can and do fake passports and people can and do steal ID and there we are handing it onto anyone who cares to hack. It's a damn good point. It's not about civil liberties , it's about security isn't it? I cannot stand how personal data is stored on networked computers which are rarely in safe places. There is a blatant disregard for our individuality on the pretext we are being protected. No-o! We are being exposed. I thought we were beefing up security? This really is an airhead approach. The time of the airhead is gone. Finished. Get over it and make an intelligent approach to safeguarding the nation and people's identities.I am not a civil libertarian. I am anti airhead.