The UAE Claims To Hold the Worlds Largest Biometric Database 82
another random user writes "The United Arab Emirates holds the largest biometric database in the world, the Emirates Identity Authority has announced. The population register of Emirates ID has over 103 million digital fingerprints and over 15 million digital facial recognition records, which includes multiple records of each UAE resident, and digital signatures as of October 11, senior officials said. Dr. Ali Al Khoury, Director General of Emirates ID, said the authority has submitted an official application to the World Record Academy to recognize this record. Asked about the confirmation of the authority's claims about the world record, an official spokesman of the authority told Gulf News on Sunday: 'We have made worldwide surveys and inquiries with the similar official authorities and agencies of the world governments holding such databases and confirmed that our database is the largest. The World Record Academy also confirmed to us that no other government or authority has made a similar claim for such a record,' he said."
Re:Haha (Score:2, Interesting)
US will fingerprint and photograph every single person crossing its borders. Either all the travel is done by a small group of people, or more likely their database is much, much larger than UAE. Definitely the facial recognition records, but very likely also on the fingerprints.
The 3 best groups to scam (Score:3, Interesting)
Professional athletes, those who've inherited their fortune, and Saudi royalty:
Athletes earned their wealth by virtue of a genetic lottery and countless hours of physical training.
Those who've inherited 'old money' have never struggled in their lives and often live in a bubble.
The Saudi royalty just dug a hole in the ground and discovered a gold mine.
I think somebody just offered to sell them, 'THE WORLD'S LARGEST biometric database' and somebody said sure, I don't have one of those.