This is how banks and Home Affairs smartcards will use fingerprint ID - htxt.africa

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This is how banks and Home Affairs smartcards will use fingerprint ID - htxt.africa

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Manfred Higgs

"centralised databases like the one at the Department of Home Affairs may be cracked and leaked, along with all that fingerprint template data." This to me is the largest concern.