France Just Set a Very Scary Precedent

"On October 30, the French government announced, as quietly as possible, the creation of a massive new database that will collect and store personal information and biometric data on nearly everyone living in the country. As tends to happen whenever a government seeks to enact this type of 'reforms,' the law wasn’t passed by parliament but by decree on the eve of a national holiday. As France 24 reports, the new decree will affect 60 million people and 'marks the first time the country has collected population data on such a scale since the start of the Nazi Occupation in 1940.'”