EU Delays New Biometric Travel Checks as IT Systems Not Up To Speed (usnews.com) 18
The European Union has delayed the introduction of a new biometric entry-check system for non-EU citizens, which was due to be introduced on Nov. 10, after Germany, France and the Netherlands said border computer systems were not yet ready. From a report: "Nov. 10 is no longer on the table," EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson told reporters. She said there was no new timetable, but that the possibility of a phased introduction was being looked at. The Entry/Exit System (EES) is supposed to create a digital record linking a travel document to biometric readings confirming a person's identity, removing the need to manually stamp passports at the EU's external border. It would require non-EU citizens arriving in the Schengen free-travel area to register their fingerprints, provide a facial scan and answer questions about their stay.
Biometrics data loss coming in the near future? (Score:1)
I wonder if/when this will be hacked in the near future? The USA's entry system that does similar scanning surprisingly hasnt yet had a hack/data loss (that we're aware).
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Biometric data is collected by the government. And if you wonder, it's also stored in the chip in your passport.
The US started it post 9/11, and most countries followed it which speeds up processing. Often you can skip the line and use one of those kiosks that takes an image of your iris.
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>"Biometric data is collected by the government. And if you wonder, it's also stored in the chip in your passport."
I don't have a problem with biometric ID as concept, when absolutely necessary. But I have a BIG problem with it being fingerprints or DNA. You leave those everywhere.
They should be using something like deep vein palm scan, which is accurate, fast, live-sensing, cheap, and can't be then used to track you latently.
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Biometric data is collected by the government. And if you wonder, it's also stored in the chip in your passport.
The US started it post 9/11, and most countries followed it which speeds up processing. Often you can skip the line and use one of those kiosks that takes an image of your iris.
As a non-American who visits the US 1-3 times a year, this is definitely not the case. I try to avoid Miami because I've spent over 4 hours in the Dirty Foreigners queue there before (and I was only transiting, I had a flight out to Peru).
In the UK, I can use my Australian biometric passport to go through the autogates, same as anyone from Canada, the EU, US, Japan, South Korea and probably a few others I've forgotten. It's faster because instead of 8 manned desks, you've 20+ unmanned gates that are alwa
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As an EU citizen, it meant less than a minute as I put passport on scanner looked at camera and the gate opened. No line whatsoever, just unattended gates. Non-EU got in a queue and waited to get grilled.
If I'm going to lose my mind over looking at a camera I know is verifying my face (which they already have a photo of) when I am crossing the border, then I really ought to get crazy about all the facial recognition going on daily, everywhere, and by less trustworthy actors.
Oh, if that really bothered me,
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It's a me-too system (Score:1)
Theyve only done it to copy the USA. Von de leyen blathering on about it securing the EUs borders is just farcical given the thousands of undocumented African and middle eastern migrants migrants rocking up on italy and Spain's shores literally every week. It's a beaurocrats wet dream that will simply make internation travel more awkward and risk a huge potential data breach long term.
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LOL I love seeing just how much you can talk out of your arse.
a) They aren't copying the USA. The USA system is rubbish and the process for using it is fundamentally different.
b) You're complaining about undocumented migration and criticising someone raising a potential solution in the same sentence... well... yeah, that's literally how this works. You have problem (tracking migrants), you look for solution to problem.
c) There's literally nothing awkward about this system, it's actually making the process f
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b) Are fucking serious? You think the migrants will land and be fingerprint scanned!!?? LOL! They piss off into the weeds the minute they touch the beach you dribbling idiot!
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b) Are fucking serious? You think the migrants will land and be fingerprint scanned!!?? LOL! They piss off into the weeds the minute they touch the beach you dribbling idiot!
Nurse, he's out of bed again.
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Reality always has been an issue for you basement dwellers.
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b) Are fucking serious? You think the migrants will land and be fingerprint scanned!!?? LOL! They piss off into the weeds the minute they touch the beach you dribbling idiot!
You know what's really funny? The irregular migrants landing are currently the *ONLY ONES* being fingerprint scanned. They've literally been doing this for years already. And no they don't just piss off into the weed either. The majority of them attempt an asylum claim and aren't undocumented. It's literally the reason we know how big the migrant crisis is.
I said I couldn't wait to see what nonsense you posted next, but man you really didn't disappoint in the slightest. Kudos to you starting your weekend ov
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Theyve only done it to copy the USA. Von de leyen blathering on about it securing the EUs borders is just farcical given the thousands of undocumented African and middle eastern migrants migrants rocking up on italy and Spain's shores literally every week. It's a beaurocrats wet dream that will simply make internation travel more awkward and risk a huge potential data breach long term.
What you're describing is pretty much the only practical and legal way to seek asylum in an EU country. The US migration system is actually a phone app: CBP One (available in Apple App and Google Play Store) https://www.cbp.gov/about/mobi... [cbp.gov] (not a great link unless you read the whole page).
Orban's schengen zone expansion (Score:1)
After Hungary effectively extended the size of the Schengen zone to include Mordor there is no longer any point in pretending the EU has any meaningful border security.
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illegals welcome (Score:1)