Posted on 01/01/2024 11:52:20 PM PST by Cronos
The EU will begin taking British travellers’ fingerprints and scanning their faces from next autumn, as reported by the i and the Times.
The new Entry/Exit Scheme (EES) could reportedly come into force on October 6, 2024 after several delays. It was initially due to begin in 2022, then in 2023.
Non-EU (including British) travellers heading to the EU will have their fingerprints checked and their faces scanned the first time they enter the zone. It will apply to all EU countries except Cyprus and Ireland. Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, which are in the Schengen area but are not EU states, will also participate.
EES will register the person’s name, type of travel document, biometric data and the date and place of entry and exit.
The data will be erased three years after it is collected for data protection reasons.
The EU said the new system will help save time: “The EES replaces passport stamping and automates border control procedures, making travelling to European countries using the EES more efficient for the traveller.”
Etias, which is modelled on the US Esta scheme, means non-EU travellers will have to fill in a form and pay €7 (£6) before entering Europe’s passport-free zone.
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More blatant conditioning for the upcoming MOTB...and very invasive.
Another step along the road 🛣️🛣️🛣️ to controlling movement, tracking movement, conditioning the public, building the infrastructure, testing the implementation.
That will never happen. Just another cog on the Global ID gearwheel.
Not really - these are the same rules that the US has for non-US citizens/residents who travel to/from the States.
Since the UK is not part of the EU, they would need to follow these rules when they enter/leave an EU member country
You don’t have a larger queue - this is all automated.
If you are an illegal, you of course don’t enter through the legal entry posts.
Illegal immigrants are either pushed back from FInland/Poland/Italy or “processed” i.e. kept in camps — seemingly more countries are not processing but poshing back
Britain isn't one nation - "Britain" by that I guess you mean "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" consists of 4 nations: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
The UK is a separate country and that has never changed - for the same measure Hungary is a separate country.
The EU federalists want a closer union where that statement "separate country" could change if they get their way, but it isn't there yet
There have been cases where governments have been sued and lost cases where they held personal data beyond authorized dates (under GDPR)
well, everyone has a Social security number and has had this for decades.
And you can bet that will be used as well
So far it doesn’t require fingerprint scan, retina scan, facial recognition, palm print, etc.
So far.....
Not yet.....
Eventually...
(That will never happen. Just another cog on the Global ID gearwheel.)
Yes, trusting them to actually delete the data is laughable.
Who is going to prove they didn’t?
Just like nobody surfaced with Hillary’s emails.
Ridiculous. They could easily have been produced.
Believing otherwise is naive foolishness.
Show off.
Yes, I am aware that England, Scotland and Wales make up Great Britain. And that Great Britain and Northern Ireland make up for the United Kingdom.
My point stands in that the EU is using procedural punishment to teach the UK that they would have been better off as part of the EU than not.
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