The European Court of Justice ruled having fingerprints on ID cards was legal under EU privacy laws. The benefits of having such a system were key to preventing identity theft, it said.
Good to mention that (in the Netherlands) when you’ve provided fingerprints for a new identification card, the fingerprints are wiped from any system after you’ve received the card, remaining only on the card itself.
Over here you hand it over when you pick up the new one and it gets physically marked (a corner gets cut, typically) to prevent it being used as a duplicate.
It doesn’t. But it’s a personal ID card, You can also lie about having lost it and get a replacement.
All security is mitigation. There aren’t a ton of uses for a second expired ID of yourself in any case. It’s not like an old timey passport where you’d see someone in the movies physically changing the photo and expiration date. This thing is printed right on the plastic with hard to reproduce security measures similar to paper money.
Same in Germany. But I wouldn’t be surpised at all if wiretapping agencies like the NSA manages to get most of the data anyway. Then again, the same can be said for phones which are supposed to only keep the data on the device.
Good to mention that (in the Netherlands) when you’ve provided fingerprints for a new identification card, the fingerprints are wiped from any system after you’ve received the card, remaining only on the card itself.
I didn’t know that, but that’s nice.
Now how do I dispose of the card once it’s expired? 🤔
Over here you hand it over when you pick up the new one and it gets physically marked (a corner gets cut, typically) to prevent it being used as a duplicate.
Or you can shred it.
That doesn’t get rid of the markings on it, which could still be used.
It doesn’t. But it’s a personal ID card, You can also lie about having lost it and get a replacement.
All security is mitigation. There aren’t a ton of uses for a second expired ID of yourself in any case. It’s not like an old timey passport where you’d see someone in the movies physically changing the photo and expiration date. This thing is printed right on the plastic with hard to reproduce security measures similar to paper money.
Probably this is an EU-wide law, because my east-leaning country says this too
Same in Germany. But I wouldn’t be surpised at all if wiretapping agencies like the NSA manages to get most of the data anyway. Then again, the same can be said for phones which are supposed to only keep the data on the device.