EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database
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Re: EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database
#2Ah, but you see, it's the government doing it. So it's OK.
Re: EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database
#3Why would it be limited to 350 million people - isn’t the EU around 500 million or more? Are children excluded?
Re: EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database
#4Why would it be limited to 350 million people - isn’t the EU around 500 million or more? Are children excluded?
> The European Parliament voted last week to interconnect a series of border-control, migration, and law enforcement systems into a gigantic, biometrics-tracking, searchable database of EU and non-EU citizens.
It is only people already known to the EU.
Re: EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database
#5Ah, but you see, it's the government doing it. So it's OK.
Yeah, it's not like any government ever used massive population databases to exterminate parts of their population.
Certainly not a European government. And definitely not around middle of 20th century.
Re: EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database
#6Merging existing databases into one big one might be more accurate but that's modern journalism.
Re: EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database
#7Ah, but you see, it's the government doing it. So it's OK.
Will it have opt out, download your information and....?
Re: EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database
#8Why would it be limited to 350 million people - isn’t the EU around 500 million or more? Are children excluded?
> The European Parliament voted last week to interconnect a series of border-control, migration, and law enforcement systems into a gigantic, biometrics-tracking, searchable database of EU and non-EU citizens. It is only people already known to the EU.
Understood - but most EU states would have a national ID card which would make them ‘known’ to their own government. Not sure if all include biometrics (I know that the ID cards here in France are not all like that, though passports today are) but national ID cards cover all adults and children. Just seems weird that they would not include a couple of hundred million people that they definitely know something about by virtue of their citizenship of an EU country.
Re: EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database
#9Merging existing databases into one big one might be more accurate but that's modern journalism.
Not quite. There is no database in some countries. I am not going to give the EU biometrical data, even if that means skipping some "services".
Edit: I would also guess it is incompatible with recently introduced legislation.
Re: EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database
#10Ah, but you see, it's the government doing it. So it's OK.
Yeah, it's not like any government ever used massive population databases to exterminate parts of their population. Certainly not a European government. And definitely not around middle of 20th century.
Or, in more recent times, it's not as if wiretapping abuse was discovered in places like Greece or Italy.