Despite a last-minute appeal from some of Israel’s top data scientists, a Knesset committee voted Monday to approve extension of a trial of the project through next March.
The approval of the extension by the Ministerial Committee on Biometric Applications through March 2016 requires the validation of the Knesset as well.
A petition signed by 74 of the top staff at all of Israel’s universities, called the database a “security threat” that is vulnerable to hacking and data leakage. The scientists asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Knesset to back off the plan “before Israeli citizens and the country’s security are badly damaged.” The petition was delivered to Netanyahu and MKs on Sunday night ahead of Monday’s vote.
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