{"id":3821,"date":"2017-01-31T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T17:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2021-07-29T05:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T12:29:03","slug":"airport-style-identity-checks-coming-to-train-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/airport-style-identity-checks-coming-to-train-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Told you so: Airport-style identity checks coming to train travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Several European countries will start requiring photo ID from passengers to ride trains, similar to airport identity checks. The requirement concerns the high-speed Thalys and Eurostar services in Europe, with the vague goal of \u201ctightening security and tracking criminals\u201d. Activists said this would happen when useless security theater appeared in airports \u2013 it will just spread, but people dismissed the idea at the time as preposterous, probably because it still is.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reuters reports that Belgium, Netherlands, and France intend to have passenger lists and passport checks in place on high-speed trains by the end of the year. This is despite all three countries being part of the European <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schengen_Area\">Schengen zone<\/a> with borderless and paperless travel \u2013 similar to how you don\u2019t need to show papers when traveling between states inside the US or Canada.<\/p>\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Security_theater\">airport security theater<\/a> was rolled out, spearheaded by the USA following September 11, 2001, many privacy and security professionals criticized it for being intrusive and ineffective, respectively. Most notably, security guru Bruce Schneier pointed out that the only thing that really had a positive effect on security was the locked cockpit door, with a half-nod to armed air marshals as another possible measure that actually works (though being an air marshal is apparently one of the most boring jobs ever, with a horrible turnover combined with long and expensive training).<\/p>\n<p>As a tragic side note, that one positive security measure \u2013 locked cockpit doors \u2013 has instead <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germanwings_Flight_9525\">resulted<\/a> in the death of 144 people.<\/p>\n<p>The rest just doesn\u2019t work. It\u2019s theater, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Security_theater\">security theater<\/a>. There\u2019s even a YouTube channel with a guy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CH6GpXAXmx8&amp;list=PL6iHWYSMbLTLpdVHFXPQfNwbLKxxTR2wk\">constructing explosive devices and weapons<\/a> only out of things he buys <em>after<\/em> the security check on airports.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, it\u2019s violating people\u2019s privacy \u2013 their privacies of movement and of location. (In the TSA case, also their privacy of body.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>When these identity checks and this security theater appeared at domestic flights (at least domestic Scandinavian flights, which were as unchecked as bus rides before 9\/11), activists warned of a slippery slope that politicians would like it so much, despite it being utterly ineffective, that train travel would be next. Everybody dismissed the idea as absolutely ridiculous. <em>And it is.<\/em> It is just as ridiculous when being forced onto train stations this year, as it already is at airports. We\u2019ve just gotten used to it at airports already.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe bullshit this generation puts up with as a temporary annoyance, the next generation will instead regard as the natural order of society and how things have always been.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Germany is refreshingly choosing to not participate in these identity checks. It would increasingly seem that Germany is the only contemporary country who learned anything from totalitarian near-history, the only country that really has it in its blood, bones, and marrow that civic rights are there for a reason and are not to be taken lightly.<\/p>\n<p>Make careful note at this time of the little remark at the end of the Reuters story: <em>\u201cThe scheme will not be enforced\u2026 on bus services.\u201d<\/em> This is the first time I see somebody even mentioning the possibility of having a photo ID requirement to <em>ride a bus.<\/em> The idea has been conceived.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several European countries will start requiring photo ID from passengers to ride trains, similar to airport identity checks. The requirement concerns the high-speed Thalys and Eurostar services in Europe, with the vague goal of \u201ctightening security and tracking criminals\u201d. 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