In the early -80s, I was working as the head of the Research Services Department at the Office of the Attorney General of Ontario. [...] The system will then compare the image of the submitted sample (or the template extracted from it) with the biometric data of the enrolee. [...] The matching of the live biometric to the sample is all that is necessary to authenticate the individual as an eligible user. [...] Views of the Privacy Community The global privacy and data protection community have consistently argued against the use of biometrics for most one-to-many identification purposes, and against the creation of large, centralized or interoperable databases of biometric data: • Resolution of International Data Protection Authorities;6 • Opinions of the European EDPS and Article 29 Working Party;7 and [...] For example, if an attacker were able to interject a false Yes response at a proper point of the communication between the biometrics and the application, he could pose as a legitimate user to any of the applications, thus bypassing the biometric part.