So we should wait until every one's details are leaked before deciding this is a bad idea because it will inevitably leak?
This is like the police refusing to respond to death threats until the person is dead.
This is like the police refusing to respond to death threats until the person is dead.
> So we should wait until every one's details are leaked before deciding this is a bad idea because it will inevitably leak?
In mine, the police has the picture and fingerprints of everyone older than 12 years old and any younger person that needed an ID card for whatever reason, travelling being just one.
Maybe that information has been shared with that database, maybe it hasn't. I have no way of knowing. Other EU countries have the same level of information about their citizens (and some record even more data).
Can we simply agree that what the UK has done is bad, should be investigated and, if true, the people resposible should face charges for it? Or should we spend days arguing about what information might/might not have been copied and how many people have been afected?
No useful discussion can result from comments like this.
In this case Spain hasn't done anything wrong (the data gathering for the id cards was done before entering the EU and complies with EU's regulations[0]). Other EU countries gather less or more data according to their specific legislations.
The country in question here is the UK and, to a lesser extent, the US. Specifics about other EU countries are, IMHO, irrelevant.
[0] Another question, for a different discussion, is if they should record all that data.
I simply mean that the claim about fingerprints of 350 M EU citizens copied cannot be true.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-fingerprints/fingerprin...