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Eurofinger

The European Commission will today recommend fingerprinting and photographing every foreign traveller who enters or leaves the EU to create a security database aimed at curbing and tracking terrorist movements.

The proposals will then go before the European Parliament for approval. Officials, speaking off the record, said it would be "at least a year" before an operational network spanning the continent could be established.

The Herald - Bid to collect fingerprints of EU travellers - February 13 2008

Dear European Commission,

Please fuck off.

Sincerely,

Me

1. This DOESN'T WORK

You don't need more DATA, you need more on-the-ground intelligence.

2. You're fighting a war of IDEAS. To win, you need better ideas. Like, oh say, freedom for example.
Real actual freedom, not slogan freedom.

Labels: rant, security theatre, travel

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