I am seriously baffled… that 2 people would think an unwarranted general demand for ID papers without probable cause and then recording the data in a centralised tracking database is not relevant to privacy. How on earth do you arrive at that?

Is it that you don’t care about being physically tracked yourself, and from there conclude it’s not a privacy issue? Do you have something like Snapchat broadcasting your realtime physical location anyway?

I must say it’s alarming how the basic concepts of privacy has gotten lost on the younger generations to such extent. The modern day global concept of privacy is to a very large extent driven by papers being demanded in Germany in the 1940s. If it were not for 1940s Germany, privacy communities in Lemmy very well might not even exist today.

[–] TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Getting ID'd when passing a border is not a privacy issue. You are trippin.

Also legally speaking, they cant just track you. What they are doing is just registering your entrance to the country on a central databank.

[–] notastatist@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bro, I am full on privacy but if you are crossing borders, it is very normal to get checked for ID and all, normally you wont evem be able to go into a cou try before you give them all your details on why and what you are doing there... This crossing borders without chhecking is relative new and sadly will be deminished by this stupid new government we will have im germany soon...

[–] synesthesia@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bro, I am full on privacy but if you are crossing borders, it is very normal to get checked for ID and all,

No it is not normal to arbitrarily check ID at a Schengen border crossing.

[–] notastatist@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

What I meant, that its normal everywhere around the world, just not in schengen. But this changes right now and I get your point...