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SNCF tickets and data collection

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Buying any SNCF ticket from a ticket machine in France now requires:

Name
Date of Birth
Mobile Number
Email address

What's the history behind this and is there any penalty for supplying the wrong information?
 
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Alfonso

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Buying any SNCF ticket from a ticket machine in France now requires:

Name
Date of Birth
Mobile Number
Email address

What's the history behind this and is there any penalty for supplying the wrong information?
It could be SNCF track and trace equivalent
 

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I can't remember precisely what they requested but when I was in Italy last October, FS were requesting additional information at their machines ... which I found very frustrating when trying to buy a ticket minutes before the train I wanted left.
 

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Starting 9th August you need either proof of vaccination, a recent PCR or antigen test, or proof that you have had Covid and recovered in order to travel by rail in France. Possibly it's part of solving challenge of efficiently checking that this rule is being followed.

This may sound a bit strange to British ears, since as I understand it widespread regular testing of symptomless people has not been part of the UK's policy, but in Germany having one of these so called "3 G's" are a prerequisite for a whole bunch of things - at one point you needed it even to go to any shop apart from a supermarkt or pharmacy.
 

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But why you'd need a mobile number or email address to check that? The European QR-code which one can generate after a recent test, a registred recovery or a full vaccination only contains your name and data of birth besides the vaccination/test/recovery status. Or at least, that's in the Dutch version of the app.

And actually scanning the QR-code should only give a green tick mark. It shouldn't be possible for the inspector to see if you're vaccinated/tested/recovered and also your personal data should not be released by checking the code.
 

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My assumption is that these data are wanted in case you need to be warned about a possible infectuous person (Covid) being found later-by testing or whatever-in your train. I just read that in mainland China (which should not be the main example I would like to state) its even now done automatically by finding the mobile fone roaming data (as I heard in a recent radio program here lately). BTW": there are quite a lot of countries where the full name of the ticket holder is written on the ticket. Though on my last Turkey trip (some years ago by now) I was just named ''Mr. Tourist''. Giving these by some considered as very strictly personal data is considered quite differently in different countries.
For use IN the EU you get 2 codes: one for internal use, which is what daniel above here states, and also one more elaborate for INTERnational use, which also shows your name (to prove youre not cheating with someones else data), and at least the dates of the vaccinations-as some countries bar entry to those in the 2 weeks after, and in the period where the QR would already give a green tick. Newspprs here now make a big fuss about people advertising those yellow international vaccination booklets with your name on it-but without the proof that you have indeed been vaccinated.
 

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For use IN the EU you get 2 codes: one for internal use, which is what daniel above here states
No, I was referring to the international code. The internal (domestic) QR-code in the Dutch CoronaCheck-app only contains your initials and birthday.
But in the international QR-code, which is valid in all EU member states, the only personal data is again your name and date of birth (see below example of what's in the QR). So that would be the only information that SNCF should need to check if your proof of vaccination and ticket are issued to the same person.

vaxQR.jpg
 

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Starting 9th August you need either proof of vaccination, a recent PCR or antigen test, or proof that you have had Covid and recovered in order to travel by rail in France. Possibly it's part of solving challenge of efficiently checking that this rule is being followed.

This may sound a bit strange to British ears, since as I understand it widespread regular testing of symptomless people has not been part of the UK's policy, but in Germany having one of these so called "3 G's" are a prerequisite for a whole bunch of things - at one point you needed it even to go to any shop apart from a supermarkt or pharmacy.
It is not all trains in France, although from a UK traveller point of view that may turn out to be generally true if train is the main form of travel.
Which trains require a health pass?
Starting 9 August, you must have a health pass to board any TGV INOUI, INTERCITÉS or OUIGO train to destinations in France, or any long-distance international train departing from France. These new requirements do not apply to RER or Transilien commuter trains, or TER regional trains operating in France.
 
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