Americans traveling to Europe will have fingerprints scanned under new rule
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Re: Americans traveling to Europe will have fingerprints scanned under new rule
#2Ugh. I guess this is part of the normalization of surveillance in the Europe with chat control and everything else.
Re: Americans traveling to Europe will have fingerprints scanned under new rule
#3Ugh. I guess this is part of the normalization of surveillance in the Europe with chat control and everything else.
Foreign visitors to the US have had to be fingerprinted for years, so you could guess it's part of the normalization of surveillance around the world.
Re: Americans traveling to Europe will have fingerprints scanned under new rule
#4Ugh. I guess this is part of the normalization of surveillance in the Europe with chat control and everything else.
Having fingerprints on our ID cards has existed for decades.
Re: Americans traveling to Europe will have fingerprints scanned under new rule
#5Ugh. I guess this is part of the normalization of surveillance in the Europe with chat control and everything else.
I paid, booked a flight etc for having a 360 scan and giving my fingerprint just to be able to apply for a US visitor visa (which could be rejected but they would still keep all your information)
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#6My 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...
Re: Americans traveling to Europe will have fingerprints scanned under new rule
#7Ugh. I guess this is part of the normalization of surveillance in the Europe with chat control and everything else.
We have biometric passports in the EU for quite some time so I'm a bit surprised it took so long to take the same data for visitors too.
Re: Americans traveling to Europe will have fingerprints scanned under new rule
#8Ugh. 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!
Re: Americans traveling to Europe will have fingerprints scanned under new rule
#9Ugh. I guess this is part of the normalization of surveillance in the Europe with chat control and everything else.
I paid, booked a flight etc for having a 360 scan and giving my fingerprint just to be able to apply for a US visitor visa (which could be rejected but they would still keep all your information)
And European visas work exactly the same way. The news here is that Americans are going to lose their privileged status, and be treated like the rest of us.
Re: Americans traveling to Europe will have fingerprints scanned under new rule
#10My 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.