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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 Hurricane78 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, as if choosing one of a set of crooks would actually solve anything...

    What we need is a good old revolution. And I mean one with a new form of government following it.

    I propose metagovernment.org, for lack of a better form of it (for lack of having time to create one myself. :( ).

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  2. And the Swiss will vote in May by dago · · Score: 5, Interesting

    as the parlament changed the law to introduce biometric passports, a group of citizens sucessfully launched a referendum.
    As a result, they're going to vote on this in May, so this will be a good indicator as the people will directy decided.

    And before other people jump on the democracy aspect and representation in the EU, don't forget that many EU government/parlament (including mine) already introducted biometric passports and are directly elected.

    It will be also difficult to guess what the swiss result will be as they already 'confirmed' different EU decision in such referendums.

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  3. Re:dumb sheep by irae · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wish I lived in Belgium since they don't have a government there.

    As my Belgian friend said, Belgium is the best example that a government isn't necessary.