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It's odd that we still "stamp" passports, allowing border guards to see what countries you have visited in the past. This information should not be available to
by gnu8 13y ago
It's odd that we still "stamp" passports, allowing border guards to see what countries you have visited in the past. This information should not be available to any authorities by any means, but especially not appended to your identity documents. Afaik, only Israel has a correct policy on this.
- kyllo 13y agoA passport was not originally intended to be an identity document, only a travel document. But the US doesn't have any official identity document, so the passport gets de facto used as one. This is unfortunate for a number of reasons.