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Ugh. I guess this is part of the normalization of surveillance in the Europe with chat control and everything else.
Every single comment: What do you mean, it's totally normal to require fingerprint scanning for travel purposes!
Ugh. I guess this is part of the normalization of surveillance in the Europe with chat control and everything else.
Every single comment: What do you mean, it's totally normal to require fingerprint scanning for travel purposes!
My husband, a German, has been putting his fingers on the scanners when coming in to visit my family for nearly two decades - turnabout is fair play, I suppose...
That's the idea with a lot of immigration policy. Strange this one wasn't already reciprocal. Whoever originally designed it felt that Europe needed American visitors more than vice versa, but now, that's not the case.
Ugh. I guess this is part of the normalization of surveillance in the Europe with chat control and everything else.
It's unfortunate that the whole world is becoming more and more closed off. It feels like eventually we are all going to be locked into the country of our birth, with no hope of traveling somewhere else for a better life.
Case in point: South Korea. It has the total fingerprint DB of every adult citizen. Has been so for decades. Doesn't really affect people's freedom except in the abstract sense of "I don't like it when the government knows too much about me" way. Didn't even stop citizens from organizing mass protests when our president was stupid enough to declare martial law last year.
There are usual suspects that pose much bigger threats to democracy: things like income inequality, failing education, social network doing its things, media colluding with mega corporations, the usual stuff. Fingerprints may make a nice Hollywood SF thriller but that's about it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps you didn’t realize that the United States has required most Europeans to scan their fingerprints for several decades upon entry.
Everybody entering you mean.