I got myself a new passport, and a new ID card – in fact I never had one, so just “an ID card” rather… I was surprised by the speed they processed both documents, they said 2/3 weeks, they came in under 7 days… One thing that is perplexing though is that the new passport is the “biometric” one, aka “RFID-chip inside” thingamabob. I was fingerprinted when I went to City Hall to request it, left index finger only, so I was expecting to see that to be listed among the data stored in the chip. Nope. Or maybe they’re lying to us – which’d be bad, since we’re supposed to have access to the data stored, as per the law on computer data and privacy. I am of a mind of asking the monitoring authority, whoever they may be…

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