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The EU just introduced the requirement of id cards having biometric information. Fingerprint and biometric image to be precise.

The likelihood of the EU being constructive here is infinitesimally small.



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Highly ironic given how the commissioners bash google on privacy

Identifying citizens correctly is a someone necessity of government. Google's identifying of who they're advertising to is far, very far, from necessity.

It's like pointing out to the police that 'chefs use knives' when you're stopped carrying a flick knife in the street.


So given the new regulation (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...), will the Irish PSC be altered to conform to it?

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