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Ugh. I guess this is part of the normalization of surveillance in the Europe with chat control and everything else.
Perhaps you didn’t realize that the United States has required most Europeans to scan their fingerprints for several decades upon entry.
Badly written article or headline. This new rule applies to ALL travelers coming into the Schengen area, not just Americans.
I won't say the governmental fingerprint DB is great for liberty, but in the grand scheme of things, it's largely inconsequential. 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…
The way I see it, a government not having my fingerprints creates one more barrier to possible tyrannical actions like this and is thus a good thing.