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This said, the police already has a database with these info, and it likely is somehow already on the network, so adding an api (if done properly) would not dramatically alter the exposure profile.

If you think photocopies kept in some folder accessible to anyone working in the hotel, with a promise to delete it at some point, is "secure" in any way, I don't know what to tell you.

But nobody really cares enough to spend money modernising this sort of system.

The concept of "state" is very modern, we tend to retrofit it over the past, but it's often wrong. There have always been rulers, and families, competing interests and identities; which typically produced inconsistent and fragmented governance over most territories, until very recently.

And anyway, this has nothing to do with the item being discussed, which was about the mismatch between declared party orthodoxies and actual everyday practice.

But sure, stay angry.

Politics really makes people rabid.

The problem has more to do with the weak sense of belonging to a supranational identity. Californians and New Yorkers both identify as Americans before they identify as members of their home state; the opposite is true of most Europeans still. Change is slow.

The European Commission could definitely ask governments (the European Council) to agree a new treaty or protocol that grants them veto powers on "federal security grounds", for sure. The European Parliament would likely rubber-stamp it too. Considering the current (and increasing) right-wing majorities across the continent, though, I find such scenario very unlikely.

Maybe the AI revolution will "help" in that area too...

Eh, not really true for the cheap end of the market. A lot of wine sold in supermarkets, for example, is meant to be consumed a couple of years after bottling, tops. And storage can be a significant problem.

It is definitely a reality that certain goods have seen localized boycotts, like alcohol in Canada, and some services have had to change (data sovereignty in Europe got a lot of traction).

It's not a problem limited to movies, btw - plenty of music suffers the same fate.

On the other side, when you consider objective metrics, I don't think humanity ever spent so much effort and resources into preserving the past as today. Archaeology was basically invented less than 250 years ago, and now it's everywhere and continuously expanding. A lot of places are now not even allowed to change, museums are plentiful and overflowing, and the internet created a completely new world of human creation that we are increasingly trying to preserve (IA etc).

It's a mixed picture.

The industry believes very strongly that this simulation of methodology is basically as good as the real thing (or at least "good enough" in most cases).

This belief is the fault line between the bullish and the bearish; it requires a leap of faith that not everyone is willing or capable of taking.