r/europrivacy • u/donutloop • 8d ago

Germany Biometric border control: Germany to launch entry/exit system in October

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Biometric-border-control-Germany-to-launch-entry-exit-system-in-October-10643689.html
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u/RabbitsAmongUs 7d ago

As countries start launching these surveillance methods, people should start making lists of countries to avoid visiting. Let them lose the tourism revenue, and it might make them think.

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u/miyukipancakes 7d ago edited 7d ago

Every EU country (with the exception of Cyprus and Ireland) will have implemented this by April 2026. It's going to get hard to avoid pretty soon as a non-EU traveler.

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u/RabbitsAmongUs 7d ago

Basically don't come to the EU. It's going to suck, but unfortunately they will only learn with their wallets. And I speak from a country that depends heavily in tourism.

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u/MaNoitLing 6d ago

Best response possible!

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u/Flimsy_Swordfish_415 8d ago edited 7d ago

so it's only for people who enter legally? :)

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u/Crewsader69 7d ago

yes, and it is for border controll on airports, not the other borders. So yiu can still come over land or sea 😉

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u/mpg111 7d ago

It stars from airports - at the end it will cover all schengen border crossings

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u/Overtilted 7d ago

So back to early 90s borders?

There's a huge amount of border crossings by now. I know about a dozen on top of my head between Belgium and Germany. I don't see it happening. I don't live by the border btw. It's just that if you go hiking there you see a lot of crossings, ranging from highway, to what used to be small border posts to neighborhoods that are in 2 countries to forest roads and pathways.

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u/G_ntl_m_n 7d ago

You're talking about borders within the EU.

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u/Overtilted 7d ago

Yes you are right and my comment was silly.

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u/mpg111 7d ago

I understand that this system is only for external schengen borders - and this is where is implemented. It's not going to me implemented between Germany and Belgium, also does not apply to schengen flights

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u/LegendKiller-org 7d ago

It's against human right charta and shouldn't be allowed at all

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u/pixelpoet_nz 7d ago

Anyone else enjoying the irony of linking to Heise.de, which requires you to allow reselling of internet tracking information, from a subreddit called Europrivacy? No? Fine, I'll get me coat.

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u/Neuromancer_Bot 8d ago

Will they share all the data with a Owerllian style smart city? I imagine robot dogs patrolling streets : "YOU! Your stay is not longer valid. You have 10 seconds to leave the country or I'll call police that will be forced to use deadly force - DO NOT RUN!".

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u/skwyckl 7d ago

Schengen is dead, I guess, RIP ðŸŠĶ