Talk:Germany/@comment-77.138.30.126-20170818204502/@comment-27066773-20170823101855

Okay. About other countries - I think the difference is clear.

There are different registration models - starting from "full trust" model when you enter your ID details by yourself on the website through "common registration model" to "gestapo mode". Are there something worse than video chat? Yes, sure, there are 100% weird things like biometrics fingerprinting and police station registration like in Peru. Okay, let's add some more security. What about IMEI registration like in Turkey? Oh yeah, c'mon, dark age is coming. C'mon, we are waiting. Add Great Chinese Firewall and that's all, EU is totally secured? Sic!

Video chat is awful. It knocks down your privacy with a finishing blow.

And even more, if you agree for this disparaging procedure, why they accept only passports of the "chosen one countries list"? You shouldn't know all possible passports design, only basic guidelines or just read the damn ICAO 9303 standard - Machine Readable Travel Documents (Passports). But no, they want to bring chaos, create a mess instead of making the measures clear.

Germany doesn't create a wide registration points network like Poland. The process is not straightforward.

In other EU countries where "standard" registration scheme is adopted, no one asks you for a live video. They will just fill the standard application form using the provided details. And usually there is no difference for the country of your passport. If the clerk can locate the first name, last name, the birthdate and document number - that's all!

Poland which adopted the "common" registration scheme this year doesn't know about this problems.

The effect for all this efforts remains debatable. How many terrorists caught using a SIM card registration scheme? How many stray trucks stopped? How many stolen iPhones returned to a unlucky tourist owners?