Lemmy, where I just posted in !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com that German police pulled over the bus I was on to demand everyone’s papers after crossing a Schengen border -- was just removed by the moderator.

[–] notastatist@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I understand your point, but why post it in a privacy sub?

[–] TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I was going to say that too. Doesn't seem like the right place to post it.

[–] synesthesia@thebrainbin.org -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

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