How could this possibly be unrelated to privacy?
They were not just looking at IDs to look for Turks (which IIRC is the reason they are doing it)… they were scanning everyone’s ID into a centralised system to generally track people’s movement – even IDs issued by neighboring countries.
Privacy is about control. In this case, the privacy invasion reduces freedom of movement (control over your own travel).
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.
I am the source. My bus was pulled over, which never happens when entering other Schengen nations. But if you think I am lying and the bus driver is lying, you can easily search for sources you trust. But you seem confused. You struggle to believe it while at the same time claiming the police are doing their job. Feels like cognitive dissonance. Or is it that you are in disbelief that the police would do their job (as you see it)? A search will help you sort that out. It’s no secret that Germany decided to flip the middle finger to Shengen ~6 months ago.
one of the job of the police supposed to actually check people’s ID?
Please read about Shengen.
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.