I'm old enough to remember when having your photo and fingerprints taken by the authorities was reserved to convicted criminals.
Now it will eventually be all of us.
All of us constantly tracked by governments and corporations alike, requiring our biometric data for anything they feel like.
Our privacy rights are going down the drain under the pretext of security.
But it will not make us safer, on the contrary.
Don't believe their authoritarian lies.
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in reply to Em • • •Belgium has been taking fingerprints for everyone aged 12 or over when applying for a (mandatory) ID card. There was virtually no political opposition to this harebrained nonsense.
It's crazy how countries everywhere are paving the way for totalitarian regimes.
spiegelmama
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When i was a boy, on ID cards they put your weight, your high, your hair colour, etc. It was required to identify a person and we didn't have anything better.
Today fingerprints are easier to use than before, they're used for the same goal and give a much better result. What's wrong with it?
If we accept the idea there's a need to identify people, why should we discourage good tools, as risky for our freedom, in favour of tools that are more ineffective? It sounds like we don't accept the idea of being identified (which I can understand but then we should talk about being or not being identified instead of saying we want the identification is done but it must be done using tools that are more error prone).
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Juggling With Eggs
in reply to Em • • •This notion that biometric data collection will somehow keep us safe from terrorism seems to be one of the great follies that came out of 9/11.
Terrorism and criminality is the pretext, not the purpose.
I don’t believe it’s really the main purpose for liberal democracies, let alone authoritarian dictatorships.
What all governments want is conformity. They want people to feel a social pressure to conform - to obey laws (however draconian) and to work hard.
Steve Holden
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in reply to Em • • •How to you reset and issue new biometric data?
Matter of time till there's a breach, infact it makes it an irresistable target.
Hubert Figuière
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in reply to Em • • •I'm old enough to remember when having your photo and fingerprints taken by the authorities was reserved to convicted criminals.
Now it will eventually be all of us.
All of us constantly tracked by governments and corporations alike, requiring our biometric data for anything they feel like.
Our privacy rights are going down the drain under the pretext of security.
WE MUST FIGHT BACK
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
in reply to Em • • •I used to refuse to enter any country that wanted to fingerprint me as, like you, I regard fingerprinting as something for criminals only.
But I broke my rule when offered a jolly to Japan.
Mmmm
in reply to Em • • •Marty Heyman at COBOLworx
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