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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jan 6

      Aral Balkan Retweeted ECAS NGO

      This. Would be great to have this resolved sooner rather than later. I can attest first hand that EU citizens living in Sweden without personal numbers are second-class EU citizens in what is supposed to be an EU country.https://twitter.com/ecas_europe/status/949555636731224064 …

      Aral Balkan added,

      ECAS NGO @ecas_europe
      Sweden is restricting #EUcitizens #freemovement rights by refusing to issue them with a #personnummer. If you are having problems with your #EUrights, get in touch http://ecas.org/free-movement-sweden-complaint/ … pic.twitter.com/I6CAqT2AEW
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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jan 6

      Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan

      (That said, the whole personal number system is a privacy nightmare that I’m afraid the Swedes are only going to realise when the Sweden Democrats get into power.)https://twitter.com/aral/status/949556447477731328 …

      Aral Balkan added,

      Aral Balkan @aral
      This. Would be great to have this resolved sooner rather than later. I can attest first hand that EU citizens living in Sweden without personal numbers are second-class EU citizens in what is supposed to be an EU country. https://twitter.com/ecas_europe/status/949555636731224064 …
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        1. Jane Halloweeno  👻 🎃 🧠 🧙‍♀️ 🧤 🦇 🐕 🍁‏ @janeruffino Jan 6
          Replying to @aral

          YES. I keep saying this but there’s such a high assumption of a benign state as a constant that I seem paranoid

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        1. @acb@mastodon.social‏ @andrewcb Jan 6
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          When or if? Do you see Sweden becoming a Nazi dictatorship?

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        2. Jan 'chakie' Ekholm‏ @jan_ekholm Jan 6
          Replying to @aral

          Can you elaborate a bit on why person numbers are bad? Everyone has them in Finland too and I’ve never seen anything bad come out of that.

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        3. Jack Nutting‏ @jacknutting Jan 6
          Replying to @jan_ekholm @aral

          One example: in Sweden, retailers often use personnummer as an identifier for their bonus clubs. Customers stand at the till and rattle off their personnummer to the cashier. Anyone listening is now halfway towards getting a fraudulent loan, courtesy of that customer!

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        4. Jack Nutting‏ @jacknutting Jan 6
          Replying to @jacknutting @jan_ekholm @aral

          And I’m sure bad actors in government can find worse things to do that don’t even require an “exploit” because they already have all the numbers.

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        1. Jane Halloweeno  👻 🎃 🧠 🧙‍♀️ 🧤 🦇 🐕 🍁‏ @janeruffino Jan 6
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          If you don’t have a bank account, a personnummer, and mobile BankID, your life is extremely limited. It can be very hard for a new immigrant or marginalized person to get all 3. And you need income to get a bank account if you’re non-EU

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