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Biometric Passports Agreed To In EU

Posted by samzenpus on from the look-into-the-scanner dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The European Parliament has signed up to a plan to introduce computerized biometric passports including people's fingerprints as well as their photographs, despite criticism from civil liberties groups and security experts who argue that the move is flawed on technical grounds. (Back in 2005 Sweden and Norway began deploying biometric passports.)"

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  1. Re:dumb sheep by Askmum · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You do realise that we have to choose between people that come in to work on Friday morning for 5 minutes to collect their daily allowance and then bugger of home and people who want to prosecute whistleblowers?

    The EU is the largest assembly of corrupt and indadequate politicians you will ever find.
    Nevertheless I will vote. There is some hope in me yet that there will be at least one MP who isn't like that.

    IMHO the EU has to go. Everything that happened after the EEG has turned out for the worst. Sure we have had the joys of having some of our laws relaxed because if the EU, but the constant interference of what basically are foreign powers in our national politics is what pisses me off big time.