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Re:The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) [pdf] by lvh on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @08:57AM (#21824810)
Your handle suggests you're Dutch: every Dutch passport issued in the last decade (and hence, I think almost every current valid Dutch passport?) has your fingerprints. In fact, the Netherlands is the only EU country so far (I think) that's storing them all together centrally, not just in the passport.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100108102201/http://www.nrc.nl...

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Re:The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) [pdf] by Tijdreiziger on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:00PM (#21866164)
That article is from 2009. I believe a few years later fingerprinting was scrapped again due to public backlash. Now they're implementing it again due to EU regulations.
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