Re: Privacy, fare well. Hope we will see you again (Was: Debian Edu Extremadura work meeting june 2006)
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On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:39:59 +0100
"cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <cobaco@linux.be> wrote:
> and besides the privacy concerns there's the litle fact that as a
> European Citizen you don't need a passport to travel inside of
> Europe. I know I don't currently have one as my last one expired a
> couple of years ago. --
...and instead you are required to always - even inside your own
country - to carry photo ID, due to the Schengen[1] treaty. So in
reality you now need to carry government issued ID papers always.
Oh, and such papers will probably soon include biometric info[2].
- Jonas
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Information_System
[2] http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number2.1/schengen
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* Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt
* Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/
- Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
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