пятница, 24 мая 2013 г.

Fingerprinting for all

Belarus wants to introduce biometric passports containing fingerprints.

Aliaksandr Boyechka, the chairman of the State Border Committee of Belarus, has said Belarus would issue biometric passports.

“The entire world uses biometric passports. Belarus also plans to introduce such passports,” Boyechka said at a press conference in Minsk.

It should be reminded that Piotr Miklashevich, the chairman of the Belarusian Constitutional Court, said in 2012 that “fingerprinting is an objective process”.

According to current laws, All Belarusians liable for military service must be fingerprinted. Earlier, fingerprinting was a compulsory procedure only for certain categories of people.

Mass fingerprinting started in Belarus after the blast at a concert on Independence Day in Minsk on July 4, 2008. Belarusian security services uses information from mobile phone operators to take fingerprints of all people who attended the concert or were near the accident scene. This measure was later applied to other people across the country.

Commentator Aliaksandr Krasnapeutsau

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