Scaled-up surveillance : the EU builds a massive biometric database
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An upcoming biometrics repository will hold the records of 300 million people and could hand a potentially powerful surveillance tool to its member states At its headquarters in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, on the Baltic Coast, a little-known European Union body is building one of the world’s largest biometric identity databases. The Central Identity Repository (CIR) is designed to hold the records of 300 million people and will be the centerpiece of a new, integrated system that (...)
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