________________________________________ From: cdel@firsthand.net [cdel@firsthand.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 5:26 AM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Digest 1.1609 for ip Dave, Coincidentally ? the EU is also clamping down on flights from the US. (with thanks to HJ Affleck who posted this Washington Post piece to the FIPR list this morning.) If US citizens do not have to provide fingerprint data when they ask for a passport to travel out of the US then should the US government want this data on their citizens I suppose they can always ask the Europeans, Japanese, Brazilians ..... Christian Washington Post Travelers to Europe May Face Fingerprinting By Ellen Nakashima and John Ward Anderson Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, February 12, 2008; Page A01 The European Commission will propose tomorrow that all foreign travelers entering and leaving Europe, including U.S. citizens, should be fingerprinted. If approved by the European Parliament, the measure would mean that precisely identifying information on tens of millions of citizens will be added in coming years to databases that could be shared by friendly governments around the world. The United States already requires that foreigners be fingerprinted and photographed before they enter the country. So does Japan. Now top European security officials want to follow suit, with travelers being fingerprinted and some also having their facial images stored in a Europe-wide database, according to a copy of the proposal obtained by The Washington Post. The plan is part of a vast and growing trend on both sides of the Atlantic to collect and share data electronically to identify and track people in the name of national security and immigration control. U.S. government computers now have access to data on financial transactions; air travel details such as name, itinerary and credit card numbers; and the names of those sending and receiving express-mail packages -- even a description of the contents... ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE