Originally Posted by
schrodingerdog
I'm sorry, but is making a storm in a teacup. If that is the real problem, you check a given fingerprint against both right- and left-prints and if one is a match, you have a positive identification. Not that difficult.
That doesn't fix error data on and for a biometric passport and the passport's user. What you suggest as a workaround may at times provide a workaround for a person who knows of an error subject to avoiding a negative match by way of your suggestion, but there are times when the workaround for a biometric capture/storage error won't work or may cause additional problems for the user of a biometric passport that can yield false negatives of sort for the user of the passport.