Posted on 09/07/2023 10:48:25 AM PDT by george76
By 2030, the European Union expects 80% of its citizens to opt for a digital passport..
For the first time, a nation is allowing travelers to cross its border with a digital passport on their smartphone instead of a physical passport. While the trial is happening in Finland, the European Union wants at least 80% of citizens in the 27-country bloc to be using a digital ID by 2030.
The pilot program, which started at the end of August, is available only to Finnish citizens. It is running at Helsinki Airport as a partnership between Finnair, airport operator Finavia and the Finnish police. Through the end of February 2024, Finnair passengers flying to and from three United Kingdom airports can pass through border control using new voluntary “Digital Travel Credential” (DTC).
Raja, the Finnish Border Guard, says travelers using the new digital credentials can “pass through border control faster and smoother than usual without queuing.”
The European Union is co-funding the pilot project with €2.3 million (US $2.5 million). Along with the six-month trial in Helsinki, the E.U. is planning other pilot programs for Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport in Croatia and Schiphol Amsterdam Airport in the Netherlands.
Europe’s move toward a single framework for digital identification is an overarching goal of the eIDAS Regulation passed in 2014. The regulation aims make electronic interactions between businesses and individuals safer, faster and more efficient, no matter where in Europe they take place.
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UN Agenda 21 , 2030 , Great Reset, ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
REQUIRES having a cell phone-—which many do not have.
THEN ALSO REQUIRES said cell phone to be constantly updated to most recent version....a financial strain.
Yeah... no. I’d rather keep the physical passport with me. The phone might not work in other countries or its battery might have gone dead at just the wrong time.
Passports never have dead batteries and function in every country.
As for being afraid that a digital passport could be used to track you—your smartphone is already doing that. Your name is also on the plane manifest. Plus, when you use your credit card, your location is sent to the issuing bank and becomes part of your credit card records.
If you have Global Entry, it’s all pretty much digital, anyway - even though you are using an encoded paper booklet. I recently traveled from Singapore to Los Angeles without ever interacting with a human on either end.
WILL this fancy plan ELIMINATE the SCAM CALLERS like the one I had this AM ???
Caller-—with an accent I could not begin to ID: MAYBE a blend of Hindu & Phillipino Asks if this is ________ ______
I say WHO WANTS TO KNOW?
HE SAYS We have a charge on your Visa for $289...
Before he can finish—I ASK WHAT COMPANY IS THIS”
CALLER-—hesitates—”SECURITY COMPANY” for Visa
I ask “WHAT BANK?”
He stutters & finally says WELLS FARGO.
I GO OFF ON HIM BIG TIME
I DO NOT NOW OR HAVE I EVER HAD A WELLS FARGO VISA-—YOU ARE A SCAM—ETC
HE hangs up.
WHY can’t the FEDS stop this crap???
Phone can track you——The biggest reason WHY I do NOT have one.
Louisiana not Los Angeles
2030, I keep hearing that date.
Set your calls to go directly to voice mail. You can pick up the call if you recognize the number or check your voice mail at your leisure.
ridesthemiles wrote: “WHY can’t the FEDS stop this crap???”
It’s difficult to arrest someone calling from Pakistan using a fake phone number. Who are you going to arrest?
Suggest: this has cut my BScam calls to next to nothing. Set up your phone where only callers in your contacts list ring the phone. All other go to voice mail. If it’s important, they’ll leave a message. A scam caller won’t take the time.
ridesthemiles wrote: “THEN ALSO REQUIRES said cell phone to be constantly updated to most recent version....a financial strain.”
Where does it say that you must have the most recent version of a cell phone?
Put an end to spoofing and that would fix the problem rather quickly.
Ever wonder why spoofing continues to be allowed?
Frank Sinatra said it:
“And now, the end is near.....”
Are the Fins that complient?
Finland gets the first hackers...
I’m still trying to get back to a pager.
So I went to the long “All Passports” line. After a few minutes it was clear I’d miss my flight if I waited, so I forced my why to the front ignoring the “go back” comments. There I received a text from my wife saying the agent meant the passport reader line to the left. [facepalm]
So I left my first-in-line position, went to another scan line, and got right through. And I still got my passport stamped.
So, what’s going to have when their phone scanners fail?
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