🇬🇧Judgement: EU regulation on mandatory fingerprinting of ID cards has been annulled with effect from 2017!
Even though the Court of Justice unfortunately did not dismiss the fingerprinting of the entire population on the merits, mandatory fingerprinting only has a future if all EU governments are unanimous and in agreement.
I appeal on national governments to phase out this blanket collection of biometrics! Forcibly taking the fingerprints of the entire population and treating them like criminal suspects cannot be justified by at best minimal security gains and is reminiscent of dark times in Europe‘s history. In the UK, there are still no ID cards at all, and not all citizens travel abroad.
Court's press release: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/do