If you don't think that the gov does not maintain illegal databases, I'd like to sell you my house for a million bucks, t is worth it, trust me.
Which you can re-establish fairly easily, so why would they bother?
or I can add all your personal info to it and make myself a nice illegal government database.
Someone who can obtain a strand of your hair and all your personal info can already combine this info into a database entry. I don't see how the existence of biometrics-only citizenship database would expand this ability.
If you don't think that the gov does not maintain illegal databases, I'd like to sell you my house for a million bucks, t is worth it, trust me.
I know all too well that the government cannot be trusted not to maintain illegal databases. I am a Pennsylvania resident who has bought several guns from an FFL in the past year. In case you haven't been following this story, it recently came out that the Pennsylvania state police have been maintaining an illegal database of gun buyers, in violation of both state and federal law, by recording and retaining information from NICS searches. The FBI has notified the state in writing that this practice is illegal and must stop immediately, providing excellent ammo to the citizen's group which has filed suit to stop the practice and have the database destroyed. To me, this is a good example of the difficulty of getting both state and federal authorities to cooperate in an illegal scheme against citizens -- when one entity starts running such a scheme, there's always somebody on the other side who has incentive to ferret out and publicize the scheme; in this case it was the FBI auditors.