Originally Posted by
schrodingerdog
That has a very easy fix. You put your left-hand finger when requested the right-hand and vice-versa. Or you design a software that checks the fingerprint versus both right- and left-hand prints.
There is no easy fix. First, there must be an identification of an error on each affected passport and the details of the error; then there has to be consideration whether or not to notify an individual passport holder of the error and/or the nature of an error; and then there is the issue of how to best provide notification, if any, to the individual with an issued passport; and then they have to figure out how to, if at all, go about fixing the error on the passports and potentially on databases too.