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Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] synesthesia@thebrainbin.org -2 points 1 year ago

How could this possibly be unrelated to privacy?

They were not just looking at IDs to look for Turks (which IIRC is the reason they are doing it).. they were scanning everyone’s ID into a centralised system to generally track people’s movement -- even IDs issued by neighboring countries.

Privacy is about control. In this case, the privacy invasion reduces freedom of movement (control over your own travel).