[privacy] Tit For Tat: Travelers to Europe May Face Fingerprinting

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Washington Post.

[snip]

The European Commission will propose tomorrow that all foreign travelers
into and out of Europe, including U.S. citizens, should be fingerprinted.
If approved by the European Parliament, the measure would mean that
precisely identifying information on tens of millions of citizens will be
added in coming years to databases that could be shared by friendly
governments around the globe.

The United States already requires that foreigners be fingerprinted and
photographed before they can enter the country. So does Japan. Now top
European security officials want to follow suit, with travelers being
fingerprinted and some also having their facial image stored in a
Europe-wide database, according to a copy of the proposal obtained by The
Washington Post.

The plan is part of a vast and growing trend -- especially across the
Atlantic -- to collect and share data electronically for the purposes of
tracking and identifying people in the name of national security and
immigration control. U.S. government computers now have access to data on
financial transactions; air travel details such as name, itinerary and
credit card numbers; and the names of those sending and receiving
express-mail packages -- even a description of the contents.

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More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/11/AR200802110
2786.html

- - ferg

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