Posts by MC 23 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jan 2010
No, What are you on about???? Do you really need a mass biometric collection system of citizens from countries with trusted passports to stop that? Do you want to list all the terror attacks a mass biometric collection system could have actually stopped? I'll wait.
I (do not) like the way people tend to pull out terrorism etc to justify anything and everything.
The idea of centrally logging entry/exits to the Schengen area is a good one - the 1984 biometrics is not. EES only changes things for non-visa required citizens - what actual problem does treating them like criminals solve? Good luck claiming Asylum as a British/US citizen for example.
All they need to do is drop the fingerprinting. And perhaps wind down the biometrics on exiting - They could use facial if there's doubt on exit.
And, let's not forget that Africa can enter the EU southern border, and exit France, en route to here. No EES required.
The EU has its priorities completely upside down.
Southern Cyprus is not in Schengen, so not an issue. I also mis-spelt "Shirley McKie". I really hope you do look at those cases, if anything they're rather interesting and a big part of why I think FP'ing legal tourists is a step too far. No large mega-DBs involved for the McKie case. And as I said, I can see the EU dropping the FP requirement pdq.
If you have to give your prints for work (SC/Visa etc), then I agree what difference does it make. But it's the principle, the US government admits that facial provides all the biometric identity assurance they need for border control, but they continue to FP for "law enforcement purposes". And frankly I suspect the EU is just waving it's willy in retaliation for the US system - it's petty enough. In this country you have to be arrested (*and* charged) for the police to retain FP.
If I am not a criminal, if I've done nothing wrong, why should my privacy be invaded? We could DNA profile all children at birth incase of future criminality, great for law enforcement, but is that a society I would want to live in? Nope.
But to address your question about my world getting smaller - I will not cross a border that FP's me. End of. That does not preclude me taking advantage of any legal workarounds ;)
If only I could find one for the US - There just isn't one. Unless I somehow become a diplomat, NATO or a Canadian citizen (flying pigs ahoy on all of those).
Death by huge tits suffocation? If you gonna go....that's the way :)
And thanks for engaging sincerely...appreciated :)
Russia is off the list for the same reason, Canada is still good. I don't see the fingerprint requirement for the EU EES sticking (this has been mentioned elsewhere in the media) - It just adds too much time to process the numbers (The EU is not the USA, geographically speaking). Cyprus and Turkey still good for sun holidays, which I'm not really in-to.
This list of countries that don't do this is much, much larger than those that do.
I would also google "Brandon Mayfield" and "Shirley McKey" - Both examples of how FP can go very, very, wrong. When you build a massive DB of the innocent, much more likely to happen.
As an aside, my employer accepts my stance. It saves them paying for the yearly flight to the company do in the US every year.
How can you covertly get a DNA sample at passport control???????? Dread to think what happened there.
The US have been storing your photo and fingerprint for 75 years, for the last 20 years now!!!!!!!! Not getting why this is a story here and elsewhere.
I was hoping they would stop fingerprinting, I haven't visited since 2003 because of that.
Given up hope on that changing anyway, I'll never go there again.
I refuse to cross any border that fingerprints you (yes, last visit to the US was 2003).
I recently left Italy - Even people at the EU exit e-gates couldn't figure out how to look into the camera, and the EU expects 12 year olds to use a kiosk and fingerprint themselves.
This is going to cause some serious disruption.
Glad to see that they've worked on maturing the existing platform rather than introducing more features to bug fix. Really hoping I don't see 5.5.a/b/c. Pity SSO is still here as I've to see anything but pain from that! 64 TB VMDK and heap improvement are my favorites.
Just hope the web client doesn't turn into TIFKAM.
As fully paid up 3.5 Ent with SnS I wanted to upgrade to ESX 4.0 Ent+. When asked to jusitfy cost against benefits blah blah - gave up (even with the promotion).
With MS on-site and our EA - VMware, help me out here. I love ESX but senior management look at one thing.
P.S : Over my dead body does ESX get decomissioned. Problem is I'm not immortal ;)
