I'm not justifying it, nor am I saying you should visit the States (please don't), but I've been photographed on entry/exit of Japan and NZ the last two years of travelling. Fingerprinted as well in Japan.

I guess I'm just saying that this sadly will become more and more normal globally.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 months ago

I was fingerprinted or might have had just a check when I entered the US when I was not yet a Canadian citizen, after I became a citizen this never needed to be done.

I'm just sick and tired of all this shit. Once upon a time it used to be that you had to be a criminal, and I mean actually convicted of something, to have those things entered anywhere, now they're just doing it to everyone.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah as a UK citizen I have been photographed and fingerprinted in the USA for like 10 years...its nothing new really.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

The difference is what the US is increasingly doing with their surveillance data.

Obviously increased surveillance of the public is a privacy nightmare no matter who is doing it, but when it's being done by a country that is speedrunning fascism and is disappearing people with no due process, it's a much more acutely worrying probelm.

[–] piwakawakas@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised about NZ given how much our government has cut services on border control.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had assumed it was part of the E-Gate. The bit that compares your face to your passport photo.

Theoretically the photo never needs to leave the e-gate system though. I have no idea if it does or doesn't.

[–] piwakawakas@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, they've expanded that service quite a bit since I last travelled. I had a quick google and it says any captured biometric data is destroyed after 3 months.

But I guess it is still open to being hacked /data the data getting out there somehow

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It’s going to palantir forever. Palantir is in New Zealand they’re making deals with the devil

[–] piwakawakas@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 months ago

Thiel is in NZ so this wouldn't surprise me in the least to be honest.

I wish our government would stop selling citizenship to these fuckwits who only want to make lives of the average person worse