{"id":185077,"date":"2019-03-13T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185077"},"modified":"2019-03-16T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T06:34:08","slug":"the-european-unions-mandatory-national-biometric-id-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185077","title":{"rendered":"The European Union&#8217;s MANDATORY National Biometric ID Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">massprivatei.blogspot.com \u2013 March 12, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-185078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/EU-ID-card.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/EU-ID-card.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/EU-ID-card-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A recent European Union (EU) announcement about national ID&#8217;s will destroy millions of people&#8217;s privacy and create a near global biometric database.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">An <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statewatch.org\/news\/2019\/feb\/eu-frontex-visas-ilos-id-cards.htm\">article<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in State Watch News revealed that the EU has agreed to create a\u00a0MANDATORY national biometric\u00a0ID card.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>&#8220;Measures being negotiated as part of the EU&#8217;s &#8216;Security Union&#8217; are moving ahead swiftly, with the Council and Parliament reaching provisional agreements on new rules for immigration liaison officers, the EU&#8217;s Visa Code and the introduction of mandatory biometric national identity cards; and the Council agreeing its negotiating position on the new Frontex Regulation.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Earlier this week the Nepal government announced their plans to roll-out a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/kathmandupost.ekantipur.com\/news\/2019-03-03\/data-security-concerns-over-national-identity-card-project.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>national biometric ID card<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>that will affect 30 million people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Last month, I wrote an\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/massprivatei.blogspot.com\/2019\/02\/worldwide-effort-to-restrict-everyones.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>article<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>warning people about the global effort to restrict\u00a0everyone&#8217;s right to travel. But what is happening across Europe and <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/mar\/01\/china-bans-23m-discredited-citizens-from-buying-travel-tickets-social-credit-system\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Asia<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0should send chills down everyone&#8217;s back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If you combine what is happening in the EU with America&#8217;s national biometric ID card, Real-ID, it becomes painfully obvious that everyone&#8217;s right to travel freely is in jeopardy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>512 million people will be forced to give up their privacy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A European national\u00a0biometric ID card is all but a\u00a0certainty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">All the EU needs is for 28 ambassadors to say yes and just like that\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demographics_of_the_European_Union\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>512.6 million citizens<\/strong><\/span><\/a> will be forced to give up their privacy if they want to travel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Today, representatives of the Council Presidency and the European Parliament reached an informal agreement on a regulation to improve the functioning of the European network of immigration liaison officers. It will now be presented to EU ambassadors for confirmation on behalf of the Council.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Brussel Times claims that the member\u00a0countries would have <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brusselstimes.com\/eu-affairs\/13351\/european-parliament-committee-approves-new-id-cards\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eight years<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to comply when the law takes affect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">How will this affect American travelers?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Any American wishing to visit any of the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/europa.eu\/european-union\/about-eu\/countries_en\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>28 countries<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that make up the EU will be <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statewatch.org\/news\/2018\/aug\/vis-profiling-child-fingerprinting.htm\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>profiled and given risk assessments<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0by the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.schengenvisainfo.com\/etias\/\">&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>European Travel Information and Authorization System or ETIAS<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.schengenvisainfo.com\/etias\/\">&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Since citizens of countries who do not need a visa for travel purposes in the EU do not need to go through a long process of applying for the visa, ETIAS will make sure that these <strong>people are not a security threat.<\/strong> This travel authorization system will gather<\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">, keep track of, and update necessary information regarding visitors to determine whether it is safe for them to enter Schengen countries.<\/span>&#8220;<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If ETIAS sounds a lot like\u00a0Homeland Security&#8217;s <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/esta.cbp.dhs.gov\/esta\/\">&#8220;<\/a><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/esta.cbp.dhs.gov\/esta\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>U.S Electronic System for Travel Authorization System<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/a>\u00a0and their secret <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/travel\/passenger-support\/travel-redress-program\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>No-Fly list<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>give yourself a gold star, because that is exactly what it is modeled after.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If you and your family plan on visiting a country for an extended period of time, you will have no choice but to submit their biometrics to the EU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;At the same time, the EU is also upgrading the Visa Information System (VIS) &#8211; which is currently used to hold information on all applicants for short-stay Schengen visas, but is being expanded to include information on long-stay visas and residence documents; <strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statewatch.org\/news\/2018\/aug\/vis-fingerprints-long-stay-visas.htm\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to enforce mandatory biometrics in long-stay visas<\/span><\/a><\/strong> (currently a national competence); and to include the fingerprints of children from the age of six and up. <strong>All visa applicants will also be profiled<\/strong>.&#8221;\u00a0(To learn more about traveling to Europe click\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-03-10\/us-citizens-will-need-visa-visit-europe-starting-2021\">here<\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Teenagers forced to carry national biometric\u00a0ID cards<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Irish Times warned that children <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/it%20proposed%20making%20biometric%20data%20mandatory%20for%20those%20countries%20with%20id%20cards%20and%20said%20eu%20citizens%E2%80%99%20id%20cards%20%28older%20than%2012%20years%29%20and%20non-eu%20family%20members%E2%80%99%20residen%20\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>older than 12 years old<\/strong><\/span><\/a> would be forced to carry national biometric ID cards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;It proposed making biometric data mandatory for those countries with ID cards and said EU citizens\u2019 ID cards (older than 12 years) and non-EU family members\u2019 residence cards would now include biometric data, namely fingerprints and facial images, stored on a chip.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The State Watch<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statewatch.org\/news\/2019\/feb\/eu-frontex-visas-ilos-id-cards.htm\">article<\/a><\/strong><\/span> also warned that national\u00a0biometric\u00a0ID cards must be updated every 5 years and less for minors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Identity cards will have a minimum period of validity of 5 years and a maximum period of validity of 10 years. Member states may issue ID cards with a longer validity for persons aged 70 and above. If issued, ID cards for minors may have a period of validity of less than 5 years.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Modeling ETIAS after Homeland Security&#8217;s, TSA is appalling. Forcing millions of people to carry national biometric\u00a0ID cards has all the earmarks of a European police state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Didn&#8217;t we learn anything from World War II?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/massprivatei.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/the-european-unions-mandatory-national.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moves are underway for the introduction of biometric ID cards which will be mandatory for all EU citizens <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Surveillance","category-The_New_World_Order"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185121,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185077\/revisions\/185121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}