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@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-Title: Norwegian citizens now required by law to give their fingerprint to the Police
+Title: Norwegian citizens now required by law to give their fingerprint to the police
 Tags: english, personvern, surveillance
-Date: 2015-50-10 15:50
+Date: 2015-05-10 16:00
 
 <p>5 days ago, the Norwegian Parliament decided, unanimously, that all
 citizens of Norway, no matter if they are suspected of something
 criminal or not, are
 <a href="https://www.holderdeord.no/votes/1430838871e">required to
-provide finger prints to the police</a> (vote details from Holder de
+give fingerprints to the police</a> (vote details from Holder de
 ord).  The law make it sound like it will be optional, but in a few
 years there will be no option any more.  The ID will be required to
 vote, to get a bank account, a bank card, to change address on the
@@ -16,18 +16,18 @@ to stop providing their own ID on the bank cards when this new
 national ID is introduced, and the national road authorities plan to
 change the drivers license to no longer be usable as identity cards.
 In effect, to function as a citizen in Norway a national ID card will
-be required, and to get it one need to provide the finger prints to
+be required, and to get it one need to provide the fingerprints to
 the police.</p>
 
 <p>In addition to handing the fingerprint to the police (which
 promised to not make a copy of the fingerprint image at that point in
-time, but say nothing about doing it later), a picture of the finger
-print will be stored on the RFID chip, along with a picture of the
-face and other information about the person.  Some of the information
-will be encrypted, but the encryption will be the same system as
-currently used in the passports.  The codes to decrypt will be
-available to a lot of government offices and their suppliers around
-the globe, but for those that do now know anyone in those circles it
+time, but say nothing about doing it later), a picture of the
+fingerprint will be stored on the RFID chip, along with a picture of
+the face and other information about the person.  Some of the
+information will be encrypted, but the encryption will be the same
+system as currently used in the passports.  The codes to decrypt will
+be available to a lot of government offices and their suppliers around
+the globe, but for those that do not know anyone in those circles it
 is good to know that
 <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/nov/17/news.homeaffairs">the
 encryption is already broken</a>.  And they
@@ -42,4 +42,17 @@ business getting access to that information.</p>
 and I feel sorry for us all having politicians accepting such invasion
 of privacy without any objections.  So are the Norwegian passports,
 but it has been possible to function in Norway without those so far.
-That option is going away with the passing of the new law.</p>
+That option is going away with the passing of the new law.  In this, I
+envy the Germans, because for them it is optional how much biometric
+information is stored in their national ID.</p>
+
+<p>And if forced collection of fingerprints was not bad enough, the
+information collected in the national ID card register can be handed
+over to foreign intelligence services and police authorities, "when
+extradition is not considered disproportionate".</p>
+
+<p>Update 2015-05-12: For those unable to believe that the Parliament
+really could make such decision, I wrote
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Blir_det_virkelig_krav_om_fingeravtrykk_i_nasjonale_ID_kort_.html">a
+summary of the sources I have</a> for concluding the way I do
+(Norwegian Only, as the sources are all in Norwegian).</p>