Fingerprint scans for 7-year-olds? Could happen at EU borders this year

The popular image of government biometrics is video with CGI framing faces in a crowd and thumbs pressed onto scanners. Opponents of identifier collection tend to see the systems as tools enabling a weapon – deliberate misuse of identifiers.

That has offered the industry a degree of insulation as the public is concerned with motives, policies and laws.

But what if the scanners themselves started to be seen, visibly, as the weapon?

Leaders in the European Union are deliberating new …

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