I had to receive a letter from France (I'm not french, I don't live in France, but we've got family real estate there). To be able to open this letter, online (!), I had to scan my EU ID card, tilt it, and scan my face (pointing at the camera, looking to the left, etc.).

We're talking about a major french institution here, either public or private but colluding with the government to have their monopoly (don't know, don't care: they're all the same worms to me).

Speaking of which... There's been a recent case in France where a very nice lady working for some public institution (basically the IRS) was giving the name/wealth of "targets" to her brother so that her brother and his friends could go and kidnap/torture (fingers of victims have been cut) family members of rich french persons.

It's sickening and the real culprits are those creating the laws mandating this full on surveillance apparatus.