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The whole paper passport thing is just ridiculous in the age of ubiquitous digital communications and photography. Any official requiring your picture could tak
by Koshkin 6y ago
The whole paper passport thing is just ridiculous in the age of ubiquitous digital communications and photography. Any official requiring your picture could take it and send it to an AI for identification right on the spot.
- cygx 6y agoThere's currently no national database storing pictures of all German citizen, and I for one would oppose its creation.
- Koshkin 6y agoWhy would you oppose the database of all citizens to also having pictures in it?
- cygx 6y agoIt's a step on the road to mass surveillance.
- wasmitnetzen 6y agoThere is also no single database of all German citizens. Privacy is very important in Germany.
- germanier 6y agoThere is since 2007, at the Bundeszentralamt für Steuern. In addition, many decentral databases (such as local registration databases) can be comprehensively and automatically queried by many individual authorities.
- readhn 6y agoThere is. Its just not official.
- tchaffee 6y agoSource?
- lostlogin 6y agoJudging by the links throughout this thread and the posted article, that isn’t foolproof either.
- Koshkin 6y agoI agree, and having a barcode on the back of the neck would serve the purpose better.
- looperhacks 6y agoAnd what would be gained by that except spending a lot of money, needing to train existing officers and being reliant on a working internet connection?
- Koshkin 6y ago> train In most cases this would amount to simply pressing a key and reading data off the screen.
- the_svd_doctor 6y agoEasy in a "stable" situation like an airport with all the material. Harder in anything less than a perfect environment. Now what about between non-friendly countries. In a warzone. On a road checkpoint. For the random checks at the gate of the plane or in the middle of the boarding process (for flights to the US they check it both at the gate and on the "boarding platform" now). At least the paper things provides "something" when that's all you have to ID someone.