Follow Dec. 24, 2020 Israel’s transportation continues to hold on to a database containing facial photos, despite promising to have them deleted. During a meeting of the Knesset Science and Technology Committee it was revealed that the ministry of transport was still holding onto the facial database of drivers deemed to be dangerous, in contrast to an order to have them deleted by November 1. In a testimony to the potential risks of facial databases, the State Comptroller’s report from last May found numerous flaws in the way this database was being managed, including flawed security that left it exposed to possible hacking and the unregulated transferring of data from it to the police.