From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 13:57:47 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Generated. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/657934eaa6e6093ff5f002e00d80fced864f2416?ds=inline Generated. --- diff --git a/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html b/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..55ee916869 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html @@ -0,0 +1,416 @@ + + + + + Petter Reinholdtsen: Norwegian citizens now required by law to give their fingerprint to the police + + + + + + +
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Norwegian citizens now required by law to give their fingerprint to the police
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10th May 2015
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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 +required to +give fingerprints to the police (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.

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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 +the +encryption is already broken. And they +can +be read from 70 meters away. 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.

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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.

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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".

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Tags: english, personvern, surveillance.
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