'Tis the season for biometrics-giving

Lawmakers give Russians an early Xmas present

s Novym Godom

Well. It happened. Russia’s upper house of parliament passed a truly depraved law on biometrics that was rushed through the Duma earlier this week:

Oh happy days. (source)

Unfortunately, our report from yesterday did not adequately describe how awful this bill truly is.

Katyusha published a must-read analysis hours before the Federation Council approved the bill:

The 140-page text that United Russia voted on was published on the website of the State Duma late in the evening before the vote.

The reason for the fraud is obvious: as our analysis showed, only cosmetic, symbolic changes were made to the document, and all the problematic provisions that turn the Unified Biometric System into infrastructure for a digital concentration camp inspired by Klaus Schwab remained in the text.

Furthermore, even new dangerous language appeared in the text, which His Holiness [Patriarch Kirill] opposed - in particular, the possibility of collecting children’s biometrics. So far, the senators and the President of Russia have not said their word - we urge them to think carefully and not to include our country in the global project of digital transformers to build a new slave system.

Oops.

Now the space lizards are just waiting on Putin’s signature. Will he sign?