X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/2148b81669d88f018e074fead68c9acf19673c75..ebfb53b51b789a038b3157fc273aaf96559b76c4:/blog/archive/2015/05/05.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2015/05/05.rss b/blog/archive/2015/05/05.rss index bcdeed395c..f0ab88124f 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2015/05/05.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2015/05/05.rss @@ -6,6 +6,62 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Norwegian citizens now required by law to give their fingerprint to the police + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html + Sun, 10 May 2015 16:00:00 +0200 + <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> + + + What would it cost to store all phone calls in Norway? http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_would_it_cost_to_store_all_phone_calls_in_Norway_.html