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There is a lot of shady stuff with Japan and USA surveillance. Japan has started fingerprinting all non-citizens in 2007. at immigration checkpoints in airport
by micheljones 9y ago
There is a lot of shady stuff with Japan and USA surveillance.
Japan has started fingerprinting all non-citizens in 2007. at immigration checkpoints in airports and harbors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-BIS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-BIS
The winning bid for this system was by Accenture, same company that handles US's fingerprinting system, and their bid was 100,000JPY, or approximately $900 at the time. This doesn't cover even the cost of one single machine.
https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/accenture-japan-visit-and-the-mystery-of-the-100-000-yen-bid-by-gyaku/ https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/accenture-japan-visit-and-the-...
A stateless corporation in Bermuda in control of millions of biometric IDs (fingerprints) that are usually hard to obtain for the US gov/spy agencies? In this post-Snowden world, I'm having trouble believing that there's nothing shady going on here.
- ue_ 9y agoI really love Japan, but my visits in the past 3 years and having to enter a fingerprint and photo are rather offputting. I think it's a real shame.
- micheljones 9y agoTrump's got your fingerprints, homeboy!