• moe90@feddit.nlOP
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    2 months ago

    I think this kind of biometric immigration verification will come to many countries eventually. Like UK, Japan and USA already tested this kind of procedure and Singapore is just one step ahead with this full implementation. So, we just can’t avoid it. If this kind of verification concerns you a lot just don’t travel abroad.

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      2 months ago

      Singapore isn’t one step ahead, it’s full-on surveillance state.

      The implications here are that if you go through this process, then these biometrics will bought and sold throughout the world. You’ll be tracked absolutely everywhere.

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        2 months ago

        biometrics will bought and sold throughout the world. You’ll be tracked absolutely everywhere.

        But it is the same if you have a regular (non-anonymous) social media account.

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          2 months ago

          Social media is a privacy concern as well, but this is clearly on another level. I don’t save my biometric data on twitter. I don’t need facebook to live a full life. And as you said, there are anonymous alternatives. There aren’t when you travel. And living without travelling at least a little bit is kind of sad. So the comparison doesn’t fit.

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            2 months ago

            this is clearly on another level.

            No. It is just other people who are using your data.

            I don’t save my biometric data on twitter.

            You seem to have no idea what everybody is doing with all the data that you have posted.

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              2 months ago

              If you think Musk has your fingerprints because you tweeted about the last restaurant you ate, we clearly have no common sense of reality and should leave the discussion at that

    • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      It is the standard means of passport control in Europe and UK, just with the passport added, but all by machine. Once they are convinced the biometrics are good enough they’ll do this too to speed things up.