EUROPE’S NEW NORMAL: SCAN FIRST, FREEDOM SECOND ❌ Across Europe, governments are normalising digital IDs, scanning, and automated decision systems. This is not a future scare story. It is the new default that creeps into work, payments, movement, healthcare, and speech. Even Albania now has a Minister of AI, a sign of how fast automated control is entering government. Most people adapt. We do not. We build parallel options.