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Germany Paying Refugees to Leave, Many are Taking the Money and Running

truthatallcost said:
Just sharing another example of the EU's blunder in collecting millions of migrants who can't be identified.

"According to EU rules, only the fingerprints of migrants who apply for asylum are shared among the member countries, which basically means that privacy concerns don’t allow the use of the vast majority of migrants’ fingerprints taken.

Austria, which saw 700,000 refugees crossing its borders last year, says it is not legally allowed to save and share with other European states more than 90% of the fingerprint data it takes of migrants fleeing war and poverty, a potential security problem at a major migrant hub.

“That is a major problem, we have no records on these people, there are so many moving around the bloc and we have no trace of them whatsoever,” said one diplomat in Brussels, adding that some EU countries have tried to push for changes but they were blocked due to privacy protection concerns."
https://www.euractiv.com/section/gl...ules-prevent-sharing-of-refugee-fingerprints/
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Yup, totally stupid.

Another example being in how (to get away from the migrant issue for a moment), Spain has always fingerprinted its own when they apply for the obligatory identity card (let alone passport for travel), where others have hummed and hawed over privacy issues until the post 9/11 pressure caused them to crumble (the pressure being mostly from outside in that travel to the US became impossible without that feature).

Gawd, the arguments I heard in conflation of irrelevancies on the con side. Some going so far back as the 3rd Reich where Jews had a "J" stamped into their passports, and evoking the Franco dictatorship (him and the whole regime having been dead for decades by then) as not being something one wanted to follow.

Often from the very same people (even now) that not only have not a clue on how to firewall their WIFI router (indeed haven't even heard of that), but post their personal data all over the net via social networks.

Just for the hell of it I once logged myself into the router of one of these idiots that was complaining about his privacy not being protected, and then showed him a couple of his e-mails. Shoulda seen his face.:roll:

But I digress ;)
 
Chagos said:
Yup, totally stupid.

Another example being in how (to get away from the migrant issue for a moment), Spain has always fingerprinted its own when they apply for the obligatory identity card (let alone passport for travel), where others have hummed and hawed over privacy issues until the post 9/11 pressure caused them to crumble (the pressure being mostly from outside in that travel to the US became impossible without that feature).

Gawd, the arguments I heard in conflation of irrelevancies on the con side. Some going so far back as the 3rd Reich where Jews had a "J" stamped into their passports, and evoking the Franco dictatorship (him and the whole regime having been dead for decades by then) as not being something one wanted to follow.
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I don't understand who's privacy has been violated by a simple fingerprint record, but I guess some people will be difficult just because it gives them something to do. In California, every driver must give their fingerprint in order to be licensed to drive, and also to set up a bank account. It's really not something I mind doing, since I know they'll never find my prints on a blown bank safe... That's what gloves are for ��

Often from the very same people (even now) that not only have not a clue on how to firewall their WIFI router (indeed haven't even heard of that), but post their personal data all over the net via social networks.

Just for the hell of it I once logged myself into the router of one of these idiots that was complaining about his privacy not being protected, and then showed him a couple of his e-mails. Shoulda seen his face.:roll:

But I digress ;)
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:lamo :thumbs:
 
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