Posted on 11/05/2016 9:20:26 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
Frances government last week announced the creation of a highly controversial new database that will collect and store personal information
on nearly everyone living in the country who holds a French identity card or passport.
The massive database, known as Secure Electronic Documents (Titres électroniques sécurisés or TES), was decreed by the government on October 30 in an effort to crack down on identity theft.
The move sparked immediate outrage in the French media, with weekly magazine LObservateur describing it as terrifying,
and daily newspaper Libération calling it a mega database that will do no good.
The TES will affect 60 million people and marks the first time the country has collected population data on such a scale since the start of the Nazi Occupation in 1940
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
The information taken from passports will be stored for 15 years while identity card information will be kept for 20.
The French version of NSA.
They’d do better to collect data on those who are there illegally.
Interesting that the article also mentions the last time in history the government maintained identity
occurred during the Nazi regime.
It is being sold as a way to protect personal identity
whereas it represents a massive government run database,
an ideal treasure for 'black hat' hackers.
Look for arriving “immigrants”, to all be,”children under 12”
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