The EU’s newest Orwellian proposal to require tourists’ biometric data at its borders should make you prepare for unnecessary upheaval and travel interruption if you’re intending to escape to a chateau next summer. Fingerprints and pictures will be taken of any Brits crossing the Channel first. The development of a so-called “Smart Border” is reflected in the new massive... 

The EU is laying the groundwork for a massive international facial recognition database that may someday hook into the one maintained by the US, according to leaked internal documents. So we dropped all pretense of “muh democracy”, EU is now 100% communist. What about those Eastern European countries though? Haven’t they had enough? Are they really so anxious to return to communism?... 

The European Parliament voted last week to interconnect a series of border-control, migration, and law enforcement systems into a gigantic, biometrics-tracking, searchable database of EU and non-EU citizens. This new database will be known as the Common Identity Repository (CIR) and is set to unify records on over 350 million people. Per its design, CIR will aggregate both identity records (names,... 

People queue outside outside RBI headquarters in New Delhi to exchange old high denomination bank notes in Old Delhi, India. Visitors to India risk seeing their money become worthless after the Indian government suddenly discontinued all 500 and 1,000 notes this week. Catching the whole country unawares on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the move to crackdown on tax evasion and corruption. The... 

A new report written by Ambassador Andrei Krutskikh from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) to Deputy Defense Minister Colonel General Oleg Ostapenko that is circulating in the Kremlin today warns that use of the new Apple iPhone 5 constitutes a “grave threat” to all Russian citizens in that merely by its use, “all users have given up their rights to the United States Government.” Ambassador... 

The 620,000 residents living in public housing projects should be fingerprinted as a crime-prevention measure, said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but many city residents protest that the proposal is an invasion of privacy. Bloomberg, 71, who has acquired a reputation for promoting controversial ideas, including imposing a ban on the sale of large soft drinks, says his latest proposal will make...