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Just flew back from Europe. Still traveling actually. It used to be that when you hit border control you present your passport. They don’t ask for that anymor
by browningstreet 4y ago
Just flew back from Europe. Still traveling actually.
It used to be that when you hit border control you present your passport.
They don’t ask for that anymore: border control waved a webcam at my face, called out my name, told me I could go through. Never once looked at my passport.
I think we’ve lost.
- fennecfoxy 4y agoClaiming that technology is the problem is naive; it's misuse of technology and lack of appropriate legal frameworks that is the problem. Being able to walk through an e-passport gate is awesome, we _should_ be using technology to make our lives easier. But it needs to go hand in hand with legal protections; imagine the past world where car manufacturers were not held to any safety standards or regulations, cars would not be such a boon to us as they are now.
- browningstreet 4y agoOrthogonal example -- car protections are enacted to keep occupants safe in vehicles. Federal use of facial recognition on citizens (and others) without public review and without those protections puts a lot of power in the government's hands at the expense of our privacy. Government regulations for citizens and their own protection is different that government technology use to monitor/track people. And in a country that likes to increase the use of registries, constantly wants to outlaw encryption, etc., I think there's plenty of reason to be skeptical that regulations that limit government use of these technologies isn't likely to come from Congress. Also, my point wasn't so much about the technologies, but about the utility of the kind of privacy OP was trying to manage.