Norwegian citizens now required by law to give their fingerprint to the police
10th May 2015
5 days ago, the Norwegian Parliament decided, unanimously, that all
citizens of Norway, no matter if they are suspected of something
criminal or not, are
required to
give fingerprints to the police (vote details from Holder de
ord). The law make it sound like it will be optional, but in a few
years there will be no option any more. The ID will be required to
vote, to get a bank account, a bank card, to change address on the
post office, to receive an electronic ID or to get a drivers license
and many other tasks required to function in Norway. The banks plan
to stop providing their own ID on the bank cards when this new
national ID is introduced, and the national road authorities plan to
change the drivers license to no longer be usable as identity cards.
In effect, to function as a citizen in Norway a national ID card will
be required, and to get it one need to provide the fingerprints to
the police.
In addition to handing the fingerprint to the police (which
promised to not make a copy of the fingerprint image at that point in
time, but say nothing about doing it later), a picture of the
fingerprint will be stored on the RFID chip, along with a picture of
the face and other information about the person. Some of the
information will be encrypted, but the encryption will be the same
system as currently used in the passports. The codes to decrypt will
be available to a lot of government offices and their suppliers around
the globe, but for those that do not know anyone in those circles it
is good to know that
the
encryption is already broken. And they
can
be read from 70 meters away. This can be mitigated a bit by
keeping it in a Faraday cage (metal box or metal wire container), but
one will be required to take it out of there often enough to expose
ones private and personal information to a lot of people that have no
business getting access to that information.
The new Norwegian national IDs are a vehicle for identity theft,
and I feel sorry for us all having politicians accepting such invasion
of privacy without any objections. So are the Norwegian passports,
but it has been possible to function in Norway without those so far.
That option is going away with the passing of the new law. In this, I
envy the Germans, because for them it is optional how much biometric
information is stored in their national ID.
And if forced collection of fingerprints was not bad enough, the
information collected in the national ID card register can be handed
over to foreign intelligence services and police authorities, "when
extradition is not considered disproportionate".
Update 2015-05-12: For those unable to believe that the Parliament
really could make such decision, I wrote
a
summary of the sources I have for concluding the way I do
(Norwegian Only, as the sources are all in Norwegian).
Tags: english, personvern, surveillance.
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