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MasterCard gets hacked (or someone internal steals the data, same effect). Now someone can imitate you to MasterCard, buy expensive stuff, and blame you.

Worse is if everyone uses the same hash as MasterCard. Say, the IRS, or the passport office, or the police. That's outside the scope of your question, though, which was if only MasterCard had the hash.



When it comes to the police, if they’re after you, can’t they follow you and just lift your biometrics from something you touched?


That requires effort. A seize order doesn't, and the cops have already adapted at using third parties like Google [1] to get access to data they should not have in any decent legal system.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/16/geofence-war...




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