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I'm generally confused as to how the EU seemingly gets things right when it comes to privacy like banning biometric surveillance yet seems completely hell bent
by 71a54xd 5y ago
I'm generally confused as to how the EU seemingly gets things right when it comes to privacy like banning biometric surveillance yet seems completely hell bent on creating a surveillance state in other areas (like banning encryption outright [0] or creating outsized penalties for wrong-speak [1]).
Of course the US just builds things like this for political gain and taxation.
0 - https://mailbox.org/en/post/it-companies-warn-eu-plans-to-ban-encryption https://mailbox.org/en/post/it-companies-warn-eu-plans-to-ba...
1 - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_20_1135 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...
- zajio1am 5y agoAnd also forcing biometric data in ID cards: https://blog.hidglobal.com/2021/09/european-union-already-rolling-out-biometric-national-id-cards-travel-and-more https://blog.hidglobal.com/2021/09/european-union-already-ro...
- pjerem 5y agoWhat’s wrong with the biometric data as long as it’s only inside the card and not stored elsewhere ? The only thing you can do is to be able to prove (or not) that it’s your ID. Or am I missing something ?
- dane-pgp 5y agoHow did the data get into the card? And how do you know it isn't stored elsewhere? It wouldn't be the first time a government failed to admit exactly what information it was keeping about its citizens, and how it was using it against their interests: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bulk-personal-datasets-how-mi5-gchq-mi6-have-spied-innocent-civilians-over-decade-1556013 https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bulk-personal-datasets-how-mi5-gch...
- chmod775 5y agoI don't think the UK is a good country to project from when it comes to matters of surveillance. They're quite on the extreme end.
- throwaway473825 5y agoThe biometric data (fingerprints and facial images) are stored on a chip in the card. This is a pragmatic way of increasing security without enabling mass surveillance.
- DoingIsLearning 5y ago> The biometric data (fingerprints and facial images) are stored on a chip in the card. Only on the card, genuinely asking? If I lose my citizen's card and ask for a new to be reissued is that information not retrieved from a central database for the 2nd card?
- shlurpy 5y agoLots of different interests hashing it out in an at least somewhat functioning democracy are going to experience somewhat schizophrenic behavior.