The interior ministers of German states agreed that it may be necessary to fingerprint the children of asylum-seekers even as young as six, to combat radicalization. They also greenlighted the potential monitoring of messenger apps.
The nationwide decrease in the age from which fingerprinting children would be legal in Germany, was one of the measures taken this week at the Interior Ministers’ Conference (IMK) in Dresden, which ended on Wednesday. Previously,

children under 14 were not be allowed to undergo the procedure, but the ministers have now agreed to lower the limit to six. The measure was strongly advocated by Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann ahead of the meeting. “In Bavaria, we have abolished the age limit for surveillance,” he said in an interview earlier this month. “Normally, the domestic intelligence agency in Bavaria would not place children under surveillance.  READ MORE


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