{"id":373,"date":"2006-07-31T11:16:16","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T11:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=373"},"modified":"2006-07-31T11:16:16","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T11:16:16","slug":"much-too-much-much-too-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Much too much, much too young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statewatch.org\/news\/2006\/jul\/08fingerprinting-children.htm\">Statewatch<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A report from the EU Council Presidency at the end of June (EU doc no: 9403\/1\/06) proposes that for EU passports:<\/p>\n<p><em>1. The &#8220;scanning of the facial image&#8221; should be:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;0 to 12 years of age.. storage in the chip [to be] on the basis of national legislation [and] from 12 years of age: <strong>Compulsory<\/strong>&#8220;. (emphasis in original).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><em>2. The taking of finger-prints is a wholly different issue. Here the EU Council Presidency proposes that:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scanning of fingerprints up to 12 years of age.. is permissible if provided for by national legislation&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From 12 years of age: <strong>compulsory<\/strong>&#8221; (emphasis in original)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And if any member states wants to set a lower limit, eg: 10, 8, 6 or 4 years, or 1 day, old they can do so and from 12 years old the compulsory taking of fingerprints from children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The EU has absolutely no business in demanding anyones information be databased never mind children. At the very very most it should ensure a common format for any information that individual nations see fit to register. The EU is not a state and thanks to the rejection of the constitution it is still quite literally a non-entity in legal terms.<\/p>\n<p>This was also reported in the <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/uk_news\/story\/0,,1833407,00.html\">Observer<\/a> which has a typical half hearted quote from Liberty&#8217;s ex-  Home Office employee, Shami Chakrabarti:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8216;Secure passports make a lot more sense than ID cards,&#8217; said Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights group Liberty. &#8216;But only as long as the information that is kept is no more than necessary and is not shared with other countries.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NO. A secure passport system can be made operable without any centralised database whatsoever, no information about free individuals need be shared with anybody, even within &#8216;their own country&#8217;. For a secure system you need nothing more complicated than a passport containing a digital photograph encrypted with public\/private key encryption so that the immigration control officer can verify you are the legitimate holder of your passport. Everything else is a waste of money, an imposition upon anonymity and an invitation to theft of personal information and individual rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Statewatch A report from the EU Council Presidency at the end of June (EU doc no: 9403\/1\/06) proposes that for EU passports: 1. The &#8220;scanning of the facial image&#8221; should be: &#8220;0 to 12 years of age.. storage in the chip [to be] on the basis of national legislation [and] from 12 years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,34,5,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}