All things said about Finland, it's still scary. If you get a speeding ticket, the police calls up your salary information, tax record etc, and then fine you on a percentage of that. The problem isn't the money, but the info they have access to on you. Whenever I move to a new city/district, I HAVE to register with the local police. Sure, so far it has not been abused, but can you TRUST a government, even in Finland??
How about this. Since everybody in every country has to have a passport to travel anywhere, and each passport contains a picture of the person. Why not connect all the countries together, so that when you go through customs and they check your passport number, it downloads from your home country database only your picture name and other details which is already inside your passport.
This way each country is made responsible for illegal passports.
Yes, even if dumb politicians can't agree to it, I'm sure they can start by eg. between EU and USA and slowly force other countries to do the same.
I think this will be more helpful than a national id system.
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All things said about Finland, it's still scary. If you get a speeding ticket, the police calls up your salary information, tax record etc, and then fine you on a percentage of that. The problem isn't the money, but the info they have access to on you.
Whenever I move to a new city/district, I HAVE to register with the local police. Sure, so far it has not been abused, but can you TRUST a government, even in Finland??
Call me paranoid, but Russia is just next door.
How about this. Since everybody in every country has to have a passport to travel anywhere, and each passport contains a picture of the person. Why not connect all the countries together, so that when you go through customs and they check your passport number, it downloads from your home country database only your picture name and other details which is already inside your passport.
This way each country is made responsible for illegal passports.
Yes, even if dumb politicians can't agree to it, I'm sure they can start by eg. between EU and USA and slowly force other countries to do the same.
I think this will be more helpful than a national id system.