<h3>Entries from May 2015.</h3>
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html">Norwegian citizens now required by law to give their fingerprint to the police</a>
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+ <div class="date">
+ 10th May 2015
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <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
+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
+post office, to receive an electronic ID or to get a drivers license
+and many other tasks required to function in Norway. The banks plan
+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 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
+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
+<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2215057/wireless/bad-guys-could-read-rfid-passports-at-217-feet--maybe-a-lot-more.html">can
+be read from 70 meters away</a>. This can be mitigated a bit by
+keeping it in a Faraday cage (metal box or metal wire container), but
+one will be required to take it out of there often enough to expose
+ones private and personal information to a lot of people that have no
+business getting access to that information.</p>
+
+<p>The new Norwegian national IDs are a vehicle for identity theft,
+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. 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>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
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+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
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+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title">
<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_would_it_cost_to_store_all_phone_calls_in_Norway_.html">What would it cost to store all phone calls in Norway?</a>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2015/04/">April (4)</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2015/05/">May (1)</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2015/05/">May (2)</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (276)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (277)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (23)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (51)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (84)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (85)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/raid">raid (1)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (9)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (31)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (32)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin (2)</a></li>
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