EU Parliament green-lights the creation of the Common Identity Repository (CIR), a gigantic biometrics database. "Once up and running, CIR will become one of the biggest people-tracking databases in the world, right behind the systems used by the Chinese government and India's Aadhar system. In the US, the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations run similar biometrics databases." Ever since plans to create this shared biometrics database have been made public last year, privacy advocates have criticized the EU, calling CIR's creation as the "point of no return in creating "a Big Brother centralized EU state database." Article link This will help borders patrols and security agencies no doubt, but it infringes privacy rights. You trade security for liberty. Citizens were not asked and no debate was available in any EU country to my knowledge. I would agree with a law like this if it has serious checks to prevent state abuse, which Im sure EU bureaucrats did not include( Data about laws, votes are not too much available to regular Joes by design- I searched for the law passed last week but could find official data on the internet). I am for making available my biometric data to EU states which I have resided and currently live but not Brussels(this happens to be the case- but not that amount of data like fingertips, retina, face, DNA). Tourists should be left out completly- It looks like they will save bio data for tourists too - really bad. Thoughts?
Well sure it will help enormously in keeping Europe secure, personally I hate the idea of government having all this information about me....imagine hackers getting a hold of this data. My government likely already have or easily can acquire all this information on me without announcing a biometric database. I suppose making the database official they are more able to locate individuals capable of avoiding biometric/other data collection.
