No end to tit-for-tat

And how do you teach a lesson to your kids in terms of integrity, thoughtful trust and responsibility? The EU top justice official has announced the coming of a European version of the biometrics control epidemic at country gates. 19 pieces of sensitive passenger data kept for 13 years. Plan to invest in the storage device equities. The new scheme is advocated seemingly as a tit for tat retaliation to the US who started the game, but against the terror of terrorism which remains threat No.1. What's # 2 then?

Big children at the playground are raising the stakes and surveillance cameras are selling like hot cakes. 10 fingers now printing, more coming soon elsewhere, the Internet cluttered with more biometrics and additional tracing back data than spam mails. Of course, as the steam has vanished on this blog - cool Japan is easier to sustain - and now that Europe is stepping in, what is left but adopting "shikata ga nai" as the new trendy expression in the West, to replace the stale zen?

I for one is and will ever be worried about what to tell my son about life where chatting about the next game terminal should not be all that counts. Being against and stating it is the ultimate wall of not paying in, even when getting the passport, fingers, iris and what else scanned at the gate.

Read more about Europe original stand here to start with.