Harbinger for America: The EU Is Allowing the Linking of Face Recognition Databases to Create a Mega Surveillance System

Freedom First Network ^ | April 9, 2022 | Didi Rankovic

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Digital rights advocates are accusing the EU of working to create the world’s biggest biometric surveillance infrastructure, thanks to a proposal known as “Prüm II.”

The original Prüm Convention was signed in 2005 by Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Spain, outside of the EU’s framework – but “open” to the bloc’s other member countries, 14 out of 27 of which have since joined.

The treaty is meant to increase cross-border cooperation in tackling crime and terrorism. What this has meant so far is that the parties to the treaty have been collecting, processing, and sharing data like fingerprints, DNA, information about owners of vehicles, and the like.

But “Prüm II” is supposed to expand on this cooperation by making one significant addition: facial recognition data. And the scale at which the EU plans to use this highly controversial, from the human rights and privacy point of view, technology, is described in reports as “unprecedented,” incorporating the faces of millions of people.

The massive database would then be available to police in various countries across Europe to match against photos of suspects using facial recognition algorithms, in an automated process.

The proposal was originally filed last year and aims to produce a European Parliament and EU Council regulation on automated data exchange between law enforcement in the bloc’s member countries. As more and more details have been emerging, including through responses to freedom of information requests, rights activists have been getting more vocal in their criticism.

European Digital Rights (EDRi) policy adviser Ella Jakubowska has been quoted by Wired as saying that what the EU is creating is “the most extensive biometric surveillance infrastructure that I think we will ever have seen in the world.”

[Jolla]

Just returned Wed from overseas, US Customs said, “look here”, and said OK, he did not even look at my passport.

[Maudeen]

Just another sign of prepping for the NWO/Tribulation. Sad but true, most don’t know what either is.

[Cowman]

What if they reinstate the mask mandates?

[nathanbedford]

Whether grounded in facts or not, it is the common belief here in Bavaria that most crime is committed by foreigners, especially those who came in from the mid-east and from Africa. So the idea of facial recognition as a crime prevention tool is not naturally foreign to many Bavarians.

Similarly, many in America recognize that much of the crime experienced in the states emanates from a horde of illegal immigrants streaming across our border who are not alone but are matched by African-Americans in our inner cities, compounded by a pandemic of drug addiction among whites who increasingly are committing crimes. One notes that the bulk of the drugs, especially fentanyl, come illegally across our border. Yet we conservative Americans naturally recoil from the idea of ubiquitous face recognition technology because we treasure freedom.

It is ironic that the European Union is undertaking to apply sanctions against Hungary for failure to admit border crossers from outside the EU yet Hungary seems to enjoy a comparative lack of crime. So the EU causes a problem and at the same time punishes those who solve the problem.

The more the left sinks America into a crime wave the more they win because the they will succeed the more in stealing freedom with face recognition and other technologies already en vogue in China. For the left it is a win-win, they accelerate the disintegration of the body politic with crime by deliberately opening our borders and they sap our liberties with the cure.

Like the European Union, our government with its border policies has caused the very problem it seeks to remedy at the expense of our liberties. Perhaps we could take a lesson from Hungary.

[V_TWIN]

SKYNET.......is real

[libertylover]

Where have you been?
It’s alright, we know where you’ve been.

[BenLurkin]

[patriotfury]

Agreed!

And just as we saw with the politically motivated, mild, CV-19 bio fear weapon, government can and will suspend the Bill of Rights, without any constitutional amendment, even allowing a non-legislative government agency suspend all constitutional rights.

For the facial recognition, they won’t even ask. They already haven’t.

If there is a real national emergency, manmade or not, just watch.

Scripture clearly teaches these things will happen, and will require acquiescence to buy/sell/trade anything.

Structurally we are already there. All we need now is the next phase -

Going beyond this piece, with whom is Prince Charles referring as “his” —

https://youtu.be/tEeLoyHKHOM

[Navy Patriot]

Harbinger for America: The EU Is Allowing the Linking of Face Recognition Databases to Create a Mega Surveillance System

But, but, the EU GloboHomoNazis are our Friends!

[Navy Patriot]

It’s OK, Ukraine approves.

[Jolla]

What if they reinstate the mask mandates?

I did have to lower my mask for the camera when reentering the US. They were very strict in Italy, you could not go in a shop, museum, or even on a ferry boat without proof of vaccinations AND boosters, we were denied access a couple of times due to no booster. Most often they just looked at the card and waived you in. The restaurants wanted your money they did not require even a mask.

[grobdriver]

What a coincidence.

I have been fuming all morning after trying to access the Social Security site and the userID and password I'd been using doesn't work.

Now, there's this ID.Me thing which has the usual multi-factor authentication that's more and more prevalent, and sends a text to my phone.

OK, I can live with that. THEN it wants a picture of my driver's license - which seems a bridge too far.

Told the wife, our parent's generation would not have put up with this, and our kids don't care because they're all over the ether world already with Facebook and whatnot - but us Boomers grew up in freedom and are now having a police state shoved down our throats.

Very frustrating that most ("conservative")politicians are Boomer age and they don't fight this crap.

[gundog]

And don’t even think about lighting a cigar....

[Maudeen]

Your post is a good read and your link a good message. Thanks!

[JimRed]

The new national sport will be picking off the surveillance cams.

[faucetman]

Minority Report (Tom Cruise).

[patriotfury]

“It’s OK, Ukraine approves.”

So does Putin... literally —

After Putin and Klaus Schwab slobber all ober each other at World Economic Forum introduction (WEF JAN 2021), having worked with each other since at least 1992 (and Schwab having worked with KGB at least to mid 1960’s) —

*In Putin’s own words and in full context —

JAN 2021 WEF speach, Putin advocates for global vaccinations and passport or digital varification, (including for young children), and rapid unification and digitization of global central banks -

https://www.weforum.org/events/the-davos-agenda-2021/sessions/special-address-by-vladimir-putin-president-of-the-russian-federation

After most of a decade in Moscow from 1991, my Russian isn’t the best, but the captioned missed some detail, but overall translation was not bad.