-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 finger prints 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
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>
+
+<p>And if that 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>