It does not look good:
"The Member States show surprisingly little respect even for the opinion of the European Parliament, by taking a decision that will make the Parliament's vote null and void on the very same day that the Parliament's Committee is voting on biometrics. The proposal to treat all EU citizens and everyone travelling to the EU from abroad like criminals also show how little respect some Member States' governments have for the privacy of their citizens, a principle that is one of the foundations of human dignity. These governments cannot be trusted to introduce this technology in a responsible way. We urge the Members of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee to reject all proposals for the introduction of biometric identifiers in whatever official documents: this technology will make documents not more secure, but more insecure, and it will lead to gigantic databases of EU citizen's personal data."
Andreas Dietl, EU Affairs Director of Privacy watchdog European Digital Rights
Source EDRI
